Sometimes
saying ‘thank
you for your
service’ to a
guy just isn’t
enough.”
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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