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New memorial honors suburban war hero Fallen Marine is first name on plaque unveiled Memorial Day.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-MAY-05 		Format: Online - approximately 720 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: New memorial honors suburban war hero Fallen Marine is first name on plaque unveiled Memorial Day.(News)

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Byline: Erin Holmes Daily Herald Staff Writer

With the purple bunting finally removed, the stone - engraved with the words "In Defense of Freedom" - looks young. Fresh. Even innocent.

Unlike the others around it that pay tribute to fallen soldiers of long-passed wars, it has not endured the rains and winds. It has not yet seen the tears of a dozen Memorial Day services.

But it will.

And the red granite stone, unveiled Monday at Lake Park Memorial Pavilion in Des Plaines and bearing just one name - that of Marine Cpl. Peter J. Giannopoulos, a Des Plaines native killed in Iraq - will long be...

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