When I paid my respects as a newly minted Marine on Memorial Day in 1999, I never could have foreseen that I’d be remembering my own friends and colleagues on the same day twelve years later.
Joseph R. Chenelly completed combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1998 through 2004. He now is assistant national director of communications for the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) in Washington, D.C.