A new memorial was unveiled at the Lejeune Memorial Gardens yesterday in honor of Navy hospital corpsmen who have long fought alongside Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dedication ceremony, held just outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, was attended by Navy and Marine leadership, current and former service members and the Navy Corpsmen Memorial Organization, a group that fundraised for the memorial\u2019s creation for over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA group of people, both civilian and military, gathered together and discussed the feasibility of creating an organization to build a memorial honoring the Fleet Marine Force Corpsmen,\u201d Kris Burritt, a founding member of the Corpsmen Memorial Foundation, said in a Navy release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn January 2008, such an organization was founded comprised of active duty and retired corpsmen, Marines and civilians who pledged to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n