‘What they were willing to give up’

Veterans speak in Coeur d’Alene about military service

A close-range gunshot wound didn’t stop him from giving a Veterans Day speech. Mike Kralicek, an Air Force veteran who in 2004 was shot in the face by .357 Magnum while serving for the Coeur d’Alene Police Department, joined his wife Carrie in Coeur d’Alene on Wednesday in honoring the living and deceased men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.