Legion grants honor veterans' costly sacrifices

Posted February 23, 2008

Legion grants honor veterans' costly sacrifices

Brown County soldiers saluted at cemerony

By Tony Walter
twalter@greenbaypressgazette.com


Jim Wiesner's body is at home in Allouez, but too much of his mind is still on the streets of Baghdad.


"Seeing the kids actually killed, that just keeps coming back to you, and there are nightmares," said Wiesner, a 37-year-old veteran of the Wisconsin National Guard's military police. "It's just insane. You see the scars and the burns, and it just pulls at your heart."