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Boy raises $21,000 to honor WWII hero

PITTSBURGH — With all their texting, tweeting and Internet surfing, today's kids might be the right-now generation.

Who among them has time for what some call the greatest generation?

Jordan Brown, for one.

An 11-year-old from Lebanon County, he has long been fascinated by World War II and one old soldier in particular — Dick Winters, the Easy Company commander made famous by the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."

Winters, a Lancaster native who lives in Hershey, is 92 and has Parkinson's disease....
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