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Article: aeYou want to go homeAE.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Byline: Marco Santana msantana@dailyherald.com
As Robert Stack sat in an Italian cafe in 1993, he heard word that two U.S. military helicopters had gone down in Somalia. He knew immediately his time in the Marines was about to change.
Not long thereafter, he was on a ship heading to the war-torn country.
"You are driving up and down the streets just waiting to get shot at," Stack told Glenbard West students on Tuesday. "That was the wartime experience for me. About 90 days just trying to get shot at."
Many DuPage County schools conducted programs to honor veterans on Tuesday. Roy DeShane Elementary School in Carol Stream held an ...