Marine Bill Bee: Memorial Day isn't just about beer and barbecues  

On Memorial Day 14 years ago I was in Helmand Province, , ready to go home to see my pregnant wife and family in after months of endless gun fights with the and watching my friends die.

Eight days earlier I had a brush with death when a Taliban sniper round hit a bank just inches from my face and held the hand of a teenage Marine whose life slipped away after he was shot in the head.

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