Huffington Magazine Issue 11 | Page 82

Sometimes saying ‘thank you for your service’ to a guy just isn’t enough.” Exit GREATEST PERSON OF THE WEEK Dean Smith Brothers On the Run BY EMMA DIAB & JENNY WHALEN DEAN SMITH RAN, each footfall punctuated by the jingle of metal.  For his first memorial marathon, he had asked the wife of his fallen friend and brother in arms, Tyler Swisher, if he could have the honor of wearing his dog tags as he ran. But this year, there was another set dangling from his neck that hadn’t been worn since they had been recovered. The tags were mangled and belonged to a man he had never met. Smith said he wore them PHOTOGRAPH BY MARVIN SHAOUNI HUFFINGTON 08.26.12