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1 MOSTLY SUNNY, COLD 35 23 FORECAST, B6 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2018 Powered by COMICS D5 LIFE D1-5 LOTTERY A2 OBITUARIES D3 SPORTS B1-5 DEAR ABBY D3 Gobble Gobble: 13 heartwarming Thanksgiving movies Salute: Decatur-area Veterans Day specials AT DISCOVER DIGITAL $2 Volume 146, Issue 314 A Lee Enterprises Newspaper Copyright 2018 Delivery: (800) 453-2472 Use and join the conversation: facebook.com/heraldandreview instagram.com/heraldandreview twitter.com/heraldandreview Gun control Democrats vow to work on gun legislation NATION, C2 Walk away How to get the most from your walk HEALTH, D1 Error free clean play leads to St. Teresa defeat SPORTS, B1 SARA BURNETT Associated Press ST. CHARLES Democrats did what was once unthinkable when they ipped two suburban Chicago congressional districts that had been held by Repub- licans pretty much since World War II. It was territory that produced GOP stalwarts such as Henry Hyde and Den- nis Hastert and where, until Tuesday, incumbents had regularly won re-elec- tion by 20 percentage points or more. But the Democratic successes extend south to the farms and small towns of Central and Southern Illinois, where GOP congressmen held on to two other seats Democrats had targeted, in- cluding one in a blue-collar district that was reliably Democratic until just a few years ago.

The same pattern emerged across the U.S.: Democrats captured control of the House by winning in suburban areas such as northern Virginia and commu- nities outside Los Angeles, Detroit and Minneapolis. Republicans fared better in the smaller towns and rural areas. The depth of the divide emerged during 2016, when President Donald Trump was elected. clear he was also the driving factor this year. I want a check on said Nick Molino, a 33-year-old engineer who voted in his hometown of Wheaton, west of Chicago.

The new dad consid- ers himself an independent and chose a mix of Democrats and Republicans on VALERIE WELLS valerie.wells@lee.net DECATUR At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns of World War I were silenced and an armistice, or temporary cease to hostilities, was declared between the Allied Nations and the Central Powers, led by Germany. Though the Treaty of Versailles was not signed until June 28, 1919, Armi- stice Day, now known as Veterans Day in the United States, continues to be a celebration, rst of the end of World War and now as a day to honor all veterans. The war lasted four years, and total military and civilian dead and wounded have been estimated at 40 million people. Several area schools marked Veter- ans Day, which falls on a Sunday this year, with Friday events, while others will be doing so Monday. The cial federal holiday is on Monday.

At Decatur Christian School on Fri- day morning, students and their fam- ilies, including a large number of vet- erans, gathered to honor all veterans, but particularly to remember that day 100 years ago. main drawback is the lack of read Logan Brown, a high school student dressed in his Boy Scout uniform, from a letter sent home from a soldier. Army life is good for me. outdoors all day long in the fresh air in this beautiful In contrast, Ben Kirby read a letter in which the soldier talked about being in the trenches, with mud and water up to his chest, yet no one dared raise their head above the edge of the trench for fear of getting shot. times, no noise but the squealing of rats, some as large as the soldier wrote.

The assembly featured a slideshow honoring relatives of students and Honoring our military JIM BOWLING PHOTOS, HERALD REVIEW Second-grader Zachary Smith sits with his grandfather, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Phillip Niebrugge, as they go with his father, Army veteran Troy Smith, to his classroom during Veterans Day activities at Mount Zion Grade School Friday afternoon. More photos at Election shows deepening divide NARA SCHOENBERG Chicago Tribune CHICAGO In Afghanistan, Chris Groleau was a minesweeper the sol- dier who walks ahead of his platoon, waving a long metal device back and forth over the ground, listening for the array of beeps that can signal a deadly bomb is buried underfoot. It made perfect sense that he was in a state of high alert, he said. But when he came back to the U.S., he turn that nerve-jangling feeling of life-or-death danger.

And then, too, he was struggling with the loss of one of his sergeants, who died at the end of his deployment. were multiple very serious issues that I was dealing with at the same said Groleau, 28, a senior at DePaul University who served in the Army. was stressed out all the time; I was crying myself to sleep a lot, drinking very heavily. It was a very hard Groleau is one of 22 veterans who agreed to be interviewed for Lion- hearted, a new Veterans Day campaign that seeks to reduce the high suicide rate with videos and a short lm telling stories of combat and healing, as well as a related piece of art on display at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. The art is the work of Air Force vet- eran and painter Shawn Ganther, who sketched each veteran onto a piece of body armor, then connected the pieces to create a 430-pound American ag.

The stories are diverse, but a common theme emerges, according to Lionhearted project producer Tim Drnec, director of consumer marketing at Safariland, a manufacturer of pub- lic safety and military products and the creator of the Lionhearted project. you get a chance to listen to (Air Force veteran) Roger video, he sums it up quite Drnec said. a natural tendency when one goes through trauma to somewhat iso- late yourself from others, isolate your- self from your loved ones, because you want to protect them from that trauma. You tend to hide away. His revelation in going through this was the minute that you rebel against that thought of isolating yourself and bring your loved ones (in), is when you can start sailing home to In 2016, the age- and gender-ad- justed suicide rate for veterans was 26 per 100,000, 1.5 times higher than the rate for nonveterans, according to the U.S.

Department of Veterans A airs (VA). A frequently quoted 2012 VA re- port found that 22 veterans committed suicide per day, but that gure included active-duty troops, Stars and Stripes reported in June. Stars and Stripes broke down more recent VA numbers, reporting there are 21 military suicides a day, including 17 by veterans and four by active-duty service members, Guardsmen and reservists. Chicagoan Brent Webb, who appears in Lionhearted, said that after leaving the Air Force, he su ered from a sense that he had lost his mission in life. joined the military when he was 17, serving from 2006 to 2012.

If he an airman, what was he? was a collection of di erent stories that have any connective tissue between them, just sort of these oat- ing ideas and feelings in empty said Webb, who served in Afghanistan. core sense of self, the thing that binds all your thoughts and feelings and guides you, had dissolved Campaign seeks to lower veteran suicides DON THOMPSON AND PAUL ELIAS Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. A erce wild- re in Northern California incinerated most of a town of about 30,000 people with ames that moved so fast there was nothing ghters could do, authori- ties said Friday. Nine people died in what quickly grew into the most destructive re in at least a century. Only a day after it began, the blaze near the town of Paradise had grown to nearly 140 square miles, had destroyed more than 6,700 structures almost all of them homes and was burning com- pletely out of control.

was really no ght Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protec- tion said, explaining that crews gave up attacking the ames and instead helped people get out alive. ghters were in the rescue mode all day With res also burning in Southern California, state cials put the to- tal number of people forced from their homes at about 250,000. Evacuation or- ders included the entire city of Malibu, which is home to 13,000, among them some of biggest stars. President Donald Trump issued an Calif.

town incinerated by raging VETERANS DAY Local schools hold Veterans Day programs Abby Hutton waves her ag while getting ready to sing with fellow second graders during the Mount Zion Grade School Second Grade Day Assembly Friday. MORE COVERAGE TODAY of Broken Holocaust survivor recalls horrors of Kristall- nacht. LIFE, D4 Join the conversation: Honoring, taking care of our veterans and the cance of Veterans Day. OPIN- ION, A5 Online gallery: More photos of schools marking Veterans Day at her- MORE IN THE SUNDAY HERALD REVIEW In service: World War II nurse H. Lor- raine Eades, 99, remembers caring for the fallen.

100th anniversary: Test your knowl- edge of the U.S. and The Great War. Join the conversation: Have an op- portunity to thank a veteran? Grasp it. Interviews featured in short show healing, hope POLITICS Rural, urban voters solidify growing trends COME BACK: The GOP made strides in Macon County on Election Day. A look at the data Sunday in the Herald Review.

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