Officers help families deal with deaths

Sunday, March 30, 2003

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was 29 years ago but Col. Terry Melton remembers it like it was yesterday. He had to tell a woman her National Guard husband was dead -- his first assignment as a next-of-kin notifier.

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