A World War Two veteran who turns 101 on Flag Day is asking fellow Lake Forest, Calif. residents to help celebrate by sending him 101 birthday cards. Frank Wendzel, an Army Air Force Captain during the Second World War, was born June 14, 1920. After joining the Air Force in 1941, Wendzel served at various locations throughout the United States and also flew B-17 airplanes, according to a Veterans Affairs blog. He also took part in Operation Crossroads, a pair of nuclear weapons tests in Bikini Atoll in 1946. For his service, he received an American Campaign Medal, a European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal, a World War Two Victory Medal, and Overseas Service Bars. After his time in the military, Wendzel worked for NASA, where he helped with Project Mercury, NASA’s first man-in-space program. It had the objectives of orbiting a manned spacecraft around Earth,  investigating man’s ability to function in space, and recover both man and spacecraft safely, the blog said. In a post on the …