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Career soldier’s memories, influence on display

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By Andy Diffenderfer

Correspondent

CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — Terry Gunter’s memories — more than 40 years of serving in the military or teaching those who will — now can be seen by others.

Retired U.S. Special Forces Sgt. Maj. Gunter’s decades of service are highlighted in a display at the Walker County Regional Heritage Museum in Chickamauga, Ga. But they’re also ingrained in the many cadets who learned under his tutelage as a high school JROTC instructor and now serve all over the world, he said.

“I was a career soldier,” he said. “I chose it, and that was my lifestyle. When you get orders, you follow them. You have to follow the plan.”