Watch: Nurse gives hospitalized WWII veteran his own parade
Alexander Peters, a World War II veteran, planned to be in a Veterans Day parade in New Hampshire.
Then he was hospitalized.
Then the parade was canceled.
That’s when his nurse Carly decided to step in.
“I’m a WWII vet. Thank me for my service,’’ read the sign Carly placed on Peters’s back as he marched through the halls at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, New Hampshire, during his own Veterans Day parade last week, according to a Facebook post from the hospital.
Carly marched with Peters around the unit, singing and waiving an American flag as the veteran waited for his discharge papers, according to the hospital. She also had decorated his room.
“As she walked Mr. Peters to his car, people stopped him to shake his hand and thank him. It made his day – and ours!,’’ the hospital said in its post.
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