World War II veteran gets surprise on his 100th birthday

Kera Wanielista, Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.

Mar. 5—ANACORTES — When Gail Olsen told her father Elwin Vernon she was taking him out for lunch Thursday to celebrate his 100th birthday, she said he wasn't so sure he was up for it.

What Vernon, a World War II and Korean War veteran didn't know was that once he sat down at an outside table at the downtown restaurant he was also sitting down for a drive-by parade in his honor.