Remembering fallen veterans Posted on: May 27, 2021; Updated on: May 27, 2021 Growing up in a military family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, James Hull has long been interested in history. His grandfather served in the Army during the Korean War. Hull’s father was a Marine, and his 19-year-old son is now serving in the Marine Corps, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Hull himself spent 12 years in the Marines and Navy Reserves before being medically retired from the Marine Corps in 2014. He was deployed three times — to Afghanistan, Kuwait and the Horn of Africa — between 2006 and 2010, so he knows something about service members making the ultimate sacrifice.