GREEN BAY — Jetting out from the south side of the Packers’ locker room is a long corridor that leads to the office of long-time assistant equipment manager Tom Bakken.
It’s a modest space no longer than an average walk-in closet, but the keepsakes that decorate the walls and shelves paint a larger-than-life picture of service and gratitude.
Model aircrafts sit atop his desk with frames covering the rest of the room, including one arrangement of a United States flag that once flew over the Pentagon on the Fourth of July and aboard the USS Nimitz on the Dec.