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Fifth-graders welcome U.S. Marine pen pal back to Knickrehm

By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:17 PM CST
Believe it or not, being a private first class in the U.S. Marine Corps can be a little bit like being a fifth-grade student at Knickrehm Elementary.

"You have to listen," Pfc. Aaron Scarborough told fifth-graders in Diane Meyer's classroom, explaining the similarities to them on Monday morning. "You have to do what they tell you to do, when they tell you to do it and how they tell you to do it."

Scarborough was talking to the fifth-graders on Monday for a couple of different reasons. First, the students have been his pen pals while he has been training at the School of Infantry at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, Calif.

Second, he once was a student in Diane Meyer's classroom and Meyer has kept track of him through the years, going to many of his athletic events when he was in middle school and then getting an invitation when Scarborough graduated from Grand Island Senior High this past May.  Full Story

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