For its annual Veterans Day Parade on Wednesday, the city of Phoenix is featuring seven Arizonans, across generations, who served in the military, including a 100-year-old veteran of World War II who was on the beaches of Iwo Jima.
Centenarian Delmar DeWitt Beard of Glendale has plenty of stories to tell, like the one about enlisting a little too young to fight in the Second World War.
“My dad didn’t want to sign for me. I said, ‘You might as well sign for me.’ I’m not going to stay on the farm.”…