Scott Swanson
When Al Severson turns on the microphone to begin his patter for the 66th annual Albany Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 11, it will be his 45th year of involvement in the event.
“I’m the old-timer,” he said.
He’ll announce the entries as they pass the reviewing stand on 2nd Avenue in Downtown Albany, something he’s done since he got active in the parade back in the mid-1960s, when his bosses, Dan…