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Walker School Students, Faculty Welcome Home Westmont Soldier
Army Spc. Adam Tomanovich was greeted home from his first tour of duty in Afghanistan with fanfare by the students and faculty of the Clarendon Hills elementary school.
Students and staff at Walker School came out in force last Monday to welcome Army Spc. Adam Tomanovich, the son of Walker teacher Deanne Tomanovich, home from his first tour in Afghanistan, the Suburban Life reports.
According to the paper, Spc. Tomanovich, 20, of Westmont, spent the last nine months working with local Afghanis to prepare them for American withdrawal, and will leave for Germany at the end for the month after enjoying “a home-cooked meal and some sleep.”
He was greeted at Walker in full uniform with patriotic music blasting and students filling the halls waving American flags, the paper said.
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“I really didn’t know it was going to be like [this],” Tomanovich told the paper. “I thought it was going to be a couple kids, so it was really nice. I don’t even know the word for it… It’s a different feeling, seeing all the appreciation the little kids have as they look up to you,
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