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WE REMEMBER; Wisconsin honors 20 who died in the past year serving their country; Sgt. 1st Class Donald Eacho, 38; United States Army Reserve; Lance Cpl. Shane O'Donnell, 24; United States Marine Corps Reserve
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De Forest, Wis.
Nov. 8, 2004
Every summer, Shane O'Donnell went camping with his mom and his
younger brother on the Lake Michigan shore. He slept in a tent, built
campfires, fished, swam, played flashlight tag in the dark. He loved
the outdoors. Shane didn't know he was preparing for a time when he
would have to do without, living under a bridge in Iraq that he and
his fellow Marines were assigned to guard. Shane joined the Marine
Corps Reserves after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror a...
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