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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

A new Marine

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Eighteen years ago a baby girl named Maria and her twin brother Nikolai were born to a woman being held in a Russian prison in Siberia. That baby and her brother stayed with their mother until her death two years later. The two children were then sent to an orphanage in Moscow where they would live for two years. The children were adopted by a U.S. couple from Long Island, New York, and were raised as any American child.

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