Returning soldier surprises son at zoo

The good thing about being three years old is you’re unlikely to suspect something is up with the TV cameramen who flooded the stage at the Minnesota Zoo when a returning soldier tried to surprise his son.

Three-year-old Evan Tulk and his grandma went to the Minnesota Zoo on Saturday and during a presentation at one of the exhibits, his father, Sgt. Joseph Scott, surprised him

The sergeant returned from a year in Kuwait and Iraq.

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Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.