USMC Corporal Patrick Hood of Chicago, visits with his former teachers Jodi Hernandez, left, and Athena Lalaras at the Veterans Day breakfast and assembly Friday at MacArthur Middle School in Prospect Heights.
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Seventh grader Nicole Guest of Arlington Heights talks with Dennis Kersting of Des Plaines who served on the U.S.S. Rigel during the Vietnam War at the Veterans Day breakfast Friday at MacArthur Middle School in Prospect Heights.
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Jim Myrick, left, and Roger Gaden, right, with DuPage County Marines, Detachment 399, greet students as they head in for a Veterans Day program at Johnson Elementary School in Warrenville on Friday.
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World War II Army veteran Delmar Gerth of Montgomery smiles while the band performs America the Beautiful during West Aurora High School Veterans Day celebration on Friday, November 9.
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Mary Patterson comforts Zebon Beaver of Crown Point, IN, during West Aurora High Schools Veterans Day celebration on Friday, November 9. Beaver was friends with her son, SPC Christopher Alexander Patterson, and they served in the same squad. Ethan Nichter of Indianapolis, on left, was in the same platoon as Patterson.
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While being honored, Dennis Enneking hugs his thirteen-year-old son Joe, during the Geneva Middle School North annual Veterans Day assembly Friday November 9, 2012. Enneking fought in Vietnam with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.
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Third-grader Adlee Wilberding pulls her dad, Chris, tails on his headdress during Thanksgiving feast outside at Rockland School in Libertyville on Friday, November 9, 2012.
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Third-graders at Rockland School play tug-of-war after an annual Thanksgiving feast outside at the school in Libertyville on Friday, November 9, 2012.
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Six-year-old Danny Brankin of Batavia attaches some string to his project during ScienceBlast hosted by Batavia High School Saturday November 10, 2012.
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The Color Guard marches through the Naperville Healing Field to post the colors for the Naperville Veterans Day Ceremony, Sunday.
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Hoffman Estates High School standout bowler Sarah Wille at Hoffman Estates Bowl in Hoffman Estates on November 13, 2012.
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Nina Smith, grant writer for the resource development department at CLC, takes-in the CLC Art Faculty Exhibition at the Robert T. Wright Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County, running through December 9th.
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Fourth grader Bella Sanchez of Mundelein reacts as she holds a squid brain as students at Fremont Intermediate School dissected squid as part of an animal kingdom science unit on vertebrates and invertebrates Thursday in Mundelein.
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Fourth grade students at Fremont Intermediate School dissected squid as part of an animal kingdom science unit on vertebrates and invertebrates Thursday in Mundelein.
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