For a 96-Year-Old Veteran, the Parade Came to Him

Jack Le Vine, usually spends the holiday doing “nothing.” His Brooklyn neighbors had other plans.

Jack Le Vine did not march in the big Veterans Day parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday, or attend the small service at the Brooklyn War Memorial.

He spent the day on the block in Brooklyn where he was born, in the two-story brick-faced house with American flags out front and photos in the window of an aircraft carrier and a cargo ship and a handsome young man in a Navy uniform.

Still, there was a celebration, something of a surprise. It began after a neighbor in the South Slope neighborhood where Mr. Le Vine lives posted on the community bulletin board Nextdoor.com.