This is a week to recognize all the veterans who have served our country, and this is a column about one of them. Casey Viegelahn returned home to Northeast Michigan a year and a half ago after serving his country in Iraq on a Marine mission. Feeling a calling to continue serving his country, Viegelahn ran as a candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives, and ran a strong campaign in the Democrat primary against eventual winner Andy Neumann. Viegelahn and I developed a friendship during that campaign, and recently he wrote me from Iraq — parts of which I want to share with you today. After losing the election he pondered what to do next, but ultimately decided to re-enlist with the Marines as a captain and continue on with the work under way in Iraq. Here are parts of the correspondence, with his knowledge that it is being shared with readers this morning: “I figure I would send you a letter to tell you how everything is going here in Ira.