Valentines for a veteran

Second grader Bella Mason and kindergartener Beckett Johnson create Valentines for a California veteran of World War II.

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McCOOK, Neb. -- When McCook Elementary School kindergarten and second grade students and their buddies heard through an NTV television story that a World War II veteran in California wanted to receive Valentines Day cards, they sprang into action, mailing him over 150 Valentines. Visit http://bit.ly/389WjQ0 to view KTXL’s broadcast about Bill White, Stockton, Calif.,104, who survived the fighting on Iowa Jima and retired as a major after a 30-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Creating Valentines Day cards for a California Marine are, from left, Atia Giorgione, Beyonca Edwards, Alice Montes, Noah Chancellor and Zander Ralston

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