Back home in Illinois, Guardsmen look for normalcy

A soldier leaps from his bed in the middle of the night, startled by the ruckus of a son playing with his dog. Then he remembers that he is no longer in Iraq but home in Chicago. A Downers Grove couple who lost their son in the war visits his grave on Thanksgiving, an annual ritual that honors the ...

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