Each day this week our local newspaper has presented a story of local veterans.
Today's article features, quite appropriately, a Marine.
Marine stands proud as ever Vietnam veteran blocks out the scary moments, prefers to recall honor
Cleveland Leonesio keeps a couple of reminders of his Marine service in the closet.
One is his 30-year-old dress blue uniform, which he can still wear when he attends annual Marine Corps balls.
The other is a jagged piece of metal, about half the size of a fist, that reminds him how well his guardian angel watched over him during three tours of duty in Vietnam.
"There was no behind the lines in Vietnam," said Leonesio, 70. "(The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) could drop a round on you anywhere."