Someone I grew up with in grade school recently hit headlines again in our hometown.
He grew up from the kid who joked around as a goofball to everyone and even had his own share of crude nicknames we all shared for fun, into an Army Sergeant who served five tours of duty, three in Iraq and two in Afghanistan.
On Oct. 1, during combat with insurgents, he was killed by an improvised explosive device.
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