This Man Has Donated A Total Of 100 Gallons Of Platelets To The Red Cross Every Two Weeks For 30 Years: 'Because I Can'

This Man Has Donated A Total Of 100 Gallons Of Platelets To The Red Cross Every Two Weeks For 30 Years: 'Because I Can'

This Man Has Donated A Total Of 100 Gallons Of Platelets To The Red Cross Every Two Weeks For 30 Years: 'Because I Can' About 30 years ago, David Schapiro began what has become a lifelong duty of donating blood. When he was a young man in the United States Navy, the now-62-year-old bus driver in Portland, Oregon, would visit a local donation center with his friends in the service, and then go out for a beer. Once he moved to Oregon, he kept up the tradition for nearly three more decades. This weekend, he celebrated the donation of his 100th gallon of platelets to the American Red Cross, enough to save over 400 lives. David Schapiro donates his platelets to the Red Cross. Photo courtesy of Red Cross Cascades Region He has donated about every two weeks for about 30 years. The maximum a person is allowed to donate is 24 times a year — so that’s what he did. “If you were to take a 100-gallon fish tank and fill that up with product, I mean, that’s a large fish tank,” Schapiro told KOIN Ne…