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Aureliano De La Torre didn't want his son Jesse to join the Marines. "It was his own idea," Aureliano says. "I didn't agree, but there was nothing I could do." As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unfolded, Jesse grew determined to get involved as he mulled his...
After graduating from high school in 1998, Jesse put jazz aside and pursued computer engineering in community-college classes in Aurora, where he also worked at an insurance company. But he abandoned the college path in 2005 to enlist in the Marines. The decision took his family by surprise. Jesse...
For some veterans, the transition to becoming a world-class athlete is fast. Take, for example, Travis Greene, 25. Greene's legs once carried him to a sprinting record in high school and a track and field scholarship to Boise State University. But in December 2005, three months into his...
Has experiencing a near death experience changed any of your political views toward the war? -Mitchell Dorshorst in Madison, WI The belief about the war that I concentrated on is that we need to help the soldiers and marines when they come back from the war. My concentration is not...
Hometown: Wherever the Marines send the family.