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A2 Saturday, November 10, 2018 Decatur HeralD review 1 JOSE M. OSORIO, CHICAGO TRIBUNE brent Webb, who served in afghanistan, is featured in a new veterans day campaign called Lionhearted, which seeks to reduce the high suicide rate for veterans, at american tattler Post in Chicago on Nov. 6. RICK WEST, ASSOCIATED PRESS Lauren underwood, a democrat who won the 14th Congressional district, visits with others at her election night party in St. Charles on tuesday, Nov.

6. underwood unseated four-term republican rep. randy Hultgren. NOAH BERGER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighter Jose Corona sprays water as flames from the Camp Fire consume a home on Friday in magalia, Calif. Veterans Day history 11 a.m., Nov.

11, 1918, the armistice signed by the allied nations and Germany, suspending conflict of World War I observed as armistice day the following year Nov. 11, 1921, an unknown soldier interred at arlington National Cemetery Nov. 11 became a federal holiday in 1938, still called armistice day, though 27 states had already proclaimed it a holiday the 1938 act was amended in 1954 and the name changed to veterans day In 1968, veterans day became part of the uniform Holidays act that placed four holiday observance on mondays to create three- day weekends: birthday, memorial day, veterans day and Columbus day So many states disapproved of this and continued to mark Nov. 11 as veterans day that its observance was returned to Nov. 11 by President Gerald Ford in 1978.

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by Lee Enterprises Central Illinois. Periodicals postage paid at Decatur, Illinois, post office. JIM BOWLING, HERALD REVIEW veterans including Jerry Collier, front right, stand and applaud second graders after the students sang bless the u.S.a.” by Lee Greenwood for them during the mount Zion Grade School Second Grade day assembly on Friday. More photos at staff who had served, with more than 60 veterans included, and administrator Brian Minott urged anyone who wanted to be included to get photos to him to be added for next year. At Mount Zion Grade annual Veterans Day event, the gym was packed with family, and veterans were given seats of honor on the gym floor.

Each vet- eran stood, if he or she was able, identified the child who invited them and which branch of the military they had served. Tradi- tionally, second-graders invite a veteran from their family, and in the case of Zachary Smith, four. grandfathers Phil Niebrugge, a Marine veteran, and Larry Smith, who served in the Army, attended along with father, Troy Smith, an Army veteran of Desert Storm and sister, Kylie Smith, who is serving in the National Guard. Military service is a fam- ily tradition. brother served, Troy Smith said.

he lives three hours away and be Zachary, wearing his Scout uniform, rode in lap as the family headed to the classroom for snacks. The chil- dren whose families attended the event could leave with them fol- lowing the classroom activities. Contact valerie Wells at (217) 421- 7982. Follow her on twitter: Veterans From A1 his ballot. He was sure to vote for Democrat Sean Casten, a for- mer clean energy entrepreneur and first-time candidate, over six-term Republican Rep.

Peter Roskam. Casten defeated Roskam by more than 5 percentage points in an affluent district west and northwest of Chicago that was high on list of targets since voters there backed Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016. Nationally, urban and subur- ban voters preferred Democratic over Republican candidates, while voters in small towns and rural places favored Republi- cans, based on results from AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of more than 115,000 voters and 20,000 nonvoters conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago. Trump loomed large. Six in 10 Illinois voters considered him a factor in their choices, like vot- ers nationally.

About 4 in 10 voted to express opposition to the president, compared with about 2 in 10 who said it was to support Trump. Another 4 in 10 said Trump was not a factor, the survey found. About a third of small town and rural Illinois voters said they voted to support Trump, compared with about a quarter who voted against him. Another 44 percent said Trump was not a factor. More voters in urban and suburban areas voted in oppo- sition to the president than in support of him.

While Trump campaign in the Chicago area, he was more engaged in holding off Demo- cratic challenges in the two other Illinois districts, where voters favored him by larger numbers in 2016 and Republican Reps. Mike Bost of Murphysboro and Rodney Davis of Taylorville won re-election on Tuesday. Trump campaigned with Bost in far Southern Illinois just days before the election, holding a rally at a small airport in hometown. He also was in the district in August to tout his trade policies at a steel mill. Bost defeated Democratic prosecutor Brendan Kelly by more than 6 percentage points, but that margin of victory was about half of what he achieved in his last two elections, a sign that gives Democrats hope for 2020.

race, in a Central Illinois district that includes two major universities, was even tighter. He topped Springfield Democrat Betsy Dirksen Londrigan by just 1 point. Back in the Chicago area, in a district neighboring that includes rural spots along with suburbs, Democrat Lau- ren Underwood unseated four- term Rep. Randy Hultgren. The 32-year-old nurse, Af- rican-American, became the first woman and first minority to hold the seat that once be- longed to Hastert, the longtime GOP House speaker who was later convicted in a hush-money case that revealed he had sexu- ally abused high school students.

The district was redrawn af- ter the 2010 Census to make it an even safer Republican seat. That made vic- tory even more said former Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady, who opposed presidential bid and has been a vocal critic. never a district a Republican should said Brady, who knocked on doors for both Roskam and Hultgren and said he heard from count- less voters who dislike Trump. squarely on the presi- Underwood, who worked in President Barack administration helping to im- plement the Affordable Care Act, focused heavily on health care and ensuring coverage of pre-existing conditions an issue she stressed was import- ant to voters of all political back- grounds. She spoke often of her own heart condition, which she manages through medication.

She said she won by spend- ing time in every community, talking to and listening to voters who said they heard from a political candidate in years. Re- publicans had taken their vote for granted, while Democrats bothered to try winning them over. Trump won the dis- trict by 4 points over Clinton. think that our race proves that what people have previously written off be written off Underwood said. Divide From A1 emergency declaration pro- viding federal funds for Butte, Ventura and Los Angeles coun- ties.

When Paradise was evacu- ated, the order set off a desper- ate exodus in which many mo- torists got stuck in gridlocked traffic and abandoned their vehicles to flee on foot. People reported seeing much of the community go up in flames, in- cluding homes, supermarkets, businesses, restaurants, schools and a retirement center. Rural areas fared little bet- ter. Many homes have propane tanks that were exploding amid the flames. were going off like said Karen Auday, who escaped to a nearby town.

McLean estimated that the lost buildings numbered in the thousands in Paradise, about 180 miles northeast of San Francisco. much the community of Paradise is destroyed. that kind of he said. While the cause of the fire known, Pacific Gas Electric Company told state regulators it experienced an outage on an electrical trans- mission line near Paradise about 15 minutes before the blaze broke out. The company said it later noticed damage to a transmission tower near the town.

The filing was first reported by KQED News. The massive blaze spread north Friday, prompting offi- cials to order the evacuation of Stirling City and Inskip, two communities north of Paradise along the Sierra Nevada foot- hills. Fire From A1 Webb, now 30, eventually found help at a close-knit American Le- gion post in Los Angeles, where he was living at the time. The other veterans understood what he had been through, and he could talk to them about his experiences. For the first time since he had left the Air Force, he felt he was part of a cohesive group, he said.

His sense of purpose started to return. He had a lot of support, and he had ways to volunteer. Today, post commander at the American Tattler Post 973 in Lincoln Square and a district officer. doing very he said. are new chal- lenges, as far as work and con- tinuing to build relationships outside the military, trying to be prosperous in the United States of America in the 21st century, which easy all the time.

But ultimately, I feel the primary reason doing well) is because of my involvement within the American Groleau said his time in Af- ghanistan was intense and difficult, and he built coping mechanisms, including a belief that he survive. you just accept that going to die over there, then you have to worry about it he said. can just function and do your job. You have to be constantly terrified all the time that you make it When he got back to the U.S., he struggled with readjustment as well as the death of his sergeant, the only person in his troop who was killed. suicidal, but I can easily see how people get he said.

kept me going was I was just so determined that I would do whatever it took to get better, and I was seeing progress from the things I tried, whether that was talk groups, meditation or therapy. Every time I was in- volved in something, I was seeing progress and that kept me He had to do a lot of work on himself, he said: writing about his experiences, talking about them, going to therapy. Even so, he said, never going to be the same person he was before deployment. had to focus on moving forward, and becoming a better version of he said. An environmental studies major at DePaul, more confident than he was before his military service, he said.

And more focused on the things that are important to him. Asked about his message for fellow veterans, he said, gets a lot settle for mediocrity for yourself or for your friends when it comes to living a full, happy life and being able to process all those traumas and he advised. hard work, not always pleasant, but worth it, and we owe it to Suicides From A1 Our commitment to accuracy See an error in our reporting? We want you to tell us about issues regard- ing accuracy and fairness. Contact (217) 421-8905 or review.com. Past corrections are at Digital Mobile Social media Print Proudly serving central illinois since 1872 601 e.

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