Local Navy veteran Todd McGeehan was standing along Evergreen Boulevard on Saturday morning, watching the Lough Legacy Veterans Parade march by at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
He was swapping jokes with fellow veteran Tom Henderson when a kindergarten-aged girl broke off from her Girl Scout troop.
“Are you a veteran?” she asked him, presenting a card decorated in blue and red construction paper stars.
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