Articles Archive for 10 April 2011
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Editor’s note: Army Lt. Matt Spartz, a lifelong Lombard resident, was deployed to Afghanistan a year ago with the 101st Airborne Division. A 2008 journalism graduate of University of Illinois, he is submitting occasional reports for the Daily Herald.
Last week, six more soldiers were killed in one of our deployment’s hardest battles.
This week, the government looks set on losing a battle with compromise, probably resulting in a freeze of government — and in turn, military — paychecks.
Imagine telling our boys before last week that …
