For people like Ellery Majalca, the memories of the Iraq war will not soon fade, if ever. “It’s one of those things that you think about almost every day,” said Majalca, 28, who grew up in Vandalia and served as a tank crewman in Iraq. “We lost a few people that I knew.”
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