As a kid, Tommy Thompson always liked the way Marines carried themselves and the way they dressed.
It was no surprise that the now-90-year-old served in both World War II and the Korean War.
“I just thought it was the best thing I could do at the time or, I guess, at a couple of different times,” Thompson said. “I wasn’t sure exactly what I’d see when I enlisted in the Marines, but I knew that’s where I needed to be.”
Thompson served domestically during World War, guarding then-President Harry Truman’s “Winter White House” in Key West, Florida.
“I never met the man I guess, well, until here,” Thompson joked, gesturing to a later photo of him with a Truman cutout.