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UW-La Crosse honors veterans

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By John Beard - bio | email

LA CROSSE (WKOW) -- Sunday is Veterans Day, but the celebration began a day early at UW-La Crosse.

The University's football team hosted Saturday's "Pack the Vet for a vet" event, which gave veterans and their families free tickets to today's WU-La Crosse Eagles football game.

Two local men were honored on the field.

Marine Corporal Gauge Griffin, a recent graduate of GET High School, stepped on an improvised explosive device during a routine patrol overseas and suffered a traumatic brain injury.

Corporal Griffin is now home undergoing rehabilitation.

The other veteran honored today was for UW-La Cross football player Jason Church, who earned a purple heart after sustaining injuries from an improvised explosive device that resulted in the partial loss of both of his legs.

 

 

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