Jesse Melton III, RIP
Remembering my friend
I didn’t know Jesse very well, nor for very long. I believe we served together for maybe three or four months. However, in that short amount of time, he changed my life.
On September 9 2008, the Taliban and Al Qaeda killed CPT Jesse Melton III, 1Lt Nicholas Madrazo, Navy Corpsman Eichman Stickland, and a local national interpreter in the Nijrab Valley, …
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