Melissa Colburn, left, kisses her grandfather's gravestone while visiting the State Veterans Cemetery with family from Hampstead on Sunday, May 30, 2010, following a Memorial Day Ceremony by the Disabled American Veterans. With Colburn was her son, Connor, 8, mother Carole Sullivan, sister, Jennifer Hagerty and her daughter Hannah, 8, and her aunt, Paula Shelly. Lt. Col. Lyle M. Shelly retired from the U.S. Army and was married to Norma Shelly for 61 years before he passed away. "Nothing was ever broken; give it to gramp," Colburn said. "He could do anything," Carole Sullivan, his daughter, added. According to Sullivan, Lyle and his brother Walter were the first in the city of Walthan, Mass., to enlist during World War II, where Lyle was stationed in North Africa and Italy. He was also the personal helicopter pilot for former Massachusetts Gov. John A. Volpe. He passed away in April of 2009.
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