FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- A month before his scheduled retirement ceremony at Fort Drum, Command Sgt. Maj. R. Ray Lewis, his wife Guin and son Spencer started going through their belongings to see what they wanted to put in a garage sale before the movers came to pack their household goods to ship to their new home in California. "It's like going down memory lane," Lewis said, looking at old photos and other mementos from previous assignments. As friends, neighbors and shoppers came by, he sat outside and told the story of how 17-year-old Rodney Lewis came to be Command Sgt. Maj. R. Ray Lewis, finishing his 33-plus-year career as senior enlisted leader for the 10th Mountain Division (LI).
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