SEATTLE — Just a few days after the 81st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a 100-year-old survivor was honored at the Seahawks game on Sunday at Lumen Field.
Leo George Allard was on the U.S.S. Reid at Pearl Harbor back on Dec. 7, 1941. Allard served a total of nine years in the Navy, and he was greeted with a round of applause from the crowd at the Seahawks' game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday afternoon.
"I'm super emotional. I'm probably going to start crying. But he deserves all of it. I wanted to scream it from the top of the mountains since I was a kid so I guess I needed to call the Seahawks to get it done," said Danielle Pettit, Allard's granddaughter.
Allard was given a challenge coin and an autographed football from the Seahawks, and his family said it means the world to him to be recognized in front of the 60,000-plus in attendance at Lumen Field.