Word: greg
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Trailing the favored Big Red 2-1 early in the second period, Welch fell flat on the ice, freeing up Cornell forward Greg Hornby for an easy point-blank goal that junior goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris could not stop...
...someone who loved the idea of traveling, wanted to go to college and believed deeply in duty and service, the Army was a natural choice--and yet pretty much everyone, her classmates, her family, was surprised that Jessica would join up along with Greg. She was, Dee says, "a prissy tomboy, if there is such a thing," the girl for whom, even when she was out playing on the hillside, "her socks and hair bows had to match." In third grade when she broke her arm, the doctor gave her a pink cast, and she went...
...Kenworth cabover truck in the front yard; he gets $1 a mile driving anywhere from Florida to Connecticut. Now she would be the one steering five-ton trucks full of supplies to the front. "It's always in the back of your mind that something can happen," says Greg Lynch. "You wonder, Is the equipment ready? Have they trained enough? I don't know." He knows all the things that can go wrong even under the best circumstances. "They trained with those trucks on concrete. Bases don't have sand, and they don't have sand like over there...
...turn down a road that is made, at best, for two skinny cars to get to her house in the hollow. Greg Lynch grew up half a mile from here, in the house his great-grandmother lived in. He picked out the spot for his future home when he was 11 years old. "We raised three kids in four rooms, and we were happy and content," Dee says, "but with Jessi's disability, we just knew there was no way." When they learned their daughter was alive but in a pretty broken state, they debated what they were going...
...write the next chapter. It is something of a relief that people are starting to take the signs and banners down; the one over the courthouse was delivered to the Lynches as a souvenir, blue with yellow ribbons, proclaiming JESSI IS FOUND. PRAISE THE LORD. REMEMBER OUR REMAINING TROOPS. Greg Jr. is still on active duty, and they view his deployment as inevitable. "He'll get his part in all of this," his father says. "You don't like it, but he's got a job to do. Every day we pray that this war will be over." But that...