Thanks to both for their service.
Via KIRO7:
A highly-decorated veteran is celebrating Veterans Day with a special part of his past he never thought he’d see again.
It’s been more than 10 years since Lt. General Ted Jenes and his wife Bev had their lives forever changed when a compost bin alongside their home spontaneously combusted.
“Flames got into our cedar siding and almost before you could tell the story the house was gone,” Ted said.
It was heartbreaking. Memories of a 30-year-plus military career that took him from Korea to the Middle East, Vietnam to the Pentagon were destroyed.
Suffice it to say his uniform jacket used to have plenty of ribbons and medals.
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“I miss those things, but I don’t dwell on it too much,” Ted told me as we visited Thursday at the Aegis Living Center in Shoreline.
The quiet, humble Lt. General has spent his time playing golf, studying the Bible and military history. Little did he know his own history would come back to life this Veterans Day, thanks to a chance meeting brought on by another disaster.