Jimmy Carter is just days away from turning 100: help him wish him a happy birthday!

Here’s how to sign a digital card for the former president.

President Jimmy Carter continues to defy the odds. Now in his 18th month of hospice care, the Georgia native is days away from turning 100 on Tuesday, October 1.

It’s an incredible milestone, and the Carter Center is celebrating by inviting the public to upload a photo and message on a virtual birthday card for the former president on its website.

Submissions will be shared with the Carter family and compiled into a digital mosaic illustrating the breadth of President Carter’s legacy and its impact on people around the world.

The idea for a mosaic comes from a quote from a speech Jimmy gave in Pittsburgh on October 27, 1976: “We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different aspirations, different hopes, different dreams. “

Jimmy is the oldest living president in United States history. He and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, were married for 77 years before her death in November 2023.

Jason Carter, the eldest of the couple’s 22 grandchildren, said Living in the South last week, that his grandfather “is doing well… he is really diminished physically. He really can’t do much on his own, but he is emotionally engaged. He is mentally engaged.

In June, Jason said, the former president was “just experiencing the world as best he can while continuing this process” without his wife by his side.

“After 77 years of marriage…I just don’t think any of us really understand what it’s like for him right now,” Jason said. “We have to accept this fact, that there are things about the mind that we simply cannot understand.”

He said a lengthy stay in hospice care was the last thing the Carter family expected from the patriarch. But “God had other plans,” Jason thought.

To submit your own birthday message to the 39th president, visit cartercenter.org.

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