Henry Paris Ashcroft apparently doesn’t think there is anything particularly remarkable about his life.
The Mesa man’s son, Russ Ashcroft, begs to disagree.
There was the time Ashcroft graduated as valedictorian of his Eagar High School class in 1944 after getting back just in time from moving his parents’ cattle to summer grazing land.
There was the Monday morning after graduation, when the 17-year-old boarded a bus for Phoenix and then San Diego to begin serving in World War II…