LAKEWOOD, Washington — A photo of a U.S. soldier reading to a child over the internet at a Lakewood bookstore went viral late last month, and now an effort is afoot to figure out who the soldier is.
KIRO 7 partners The News Tribune reported that 16-year-old Hannah Pancho snapped the photo while she was at the Lakewood Barnes & Noble café. She posted it to Facebook and one of her friends put it on Reddit. It's also been featured on MSN.com.
“I saw that he had a book and he was reading, and then I could hear the child’s voice,” Pancho told the Tribune. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, guys, this is so sweet,’ and I started to cry.”
No one knows the soldier’s name or if he knows about the picture, but employees at the bookstore said he’s a regular.
Pancho comes from a military family herself. She said she’d like to meet the soldier in the photo, but she also didn’t intend for her post to get so popular.