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After Discharge Upgrade, Marine Finally Finds a Reason to Live
“At the hearing, the Marine colonel in charge reads Hartnett’s record; and he says, here we have a promising young Marine until 1991. And then, the colonel asks, what happened? David Sheldon – the lawyer – says that’s the question no one had ever bothered to ask.
SHELDON: He could hear a pin drop in that room when he was describing the trauma that he had went through, and how it impacted upon him.”
National Public Radio Special Series:
Veterans And Other-Than-Honorable Discharges
Originally Aired:Heard on All Things Considered