by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Not long after celebrating his 18th birthday, Milan Jamieson enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. Born in Edmunds and raised in Pembroke, Jamieson recalls that he joined against his father’s advice.

“I thought I knew more than my father did and he said, ‘No, you can’t go,” remembers Jamieson. “I think I needed discipline, and I got it.”