Carroll Krause gets an unimagined surprise as her grandson, Chief Petty Officer Anthony Fluke, makes good on his promise to someday come home from the Navy wearing his dress uniform on Monday morning at Brendan House in Kalispell. Fluke will be retiring after 20 years of service in October of this year. (Brenda Ahearn photos/Daily Inter Lake)
April 11, 2017
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April 11, 2017 9 a.m.
Chief petty officer returns after 20 years
Twenty years ago, Anthony Fluke promised his parents and grandparents he would return from the Navy safe and sound. He would march up the driveway in his chief’s uniform, he told them.