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Ontonagon Area High School graduation features Army vet

By JAN TUCKER

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ONTONAGON - Ontonagon Area High School graduation speaker Jim LaBine told  graduates Friday that "when you leave here you can be anything you want to be and I spent all my life figuring this out." He then  demonstrated the statement with his own life experiences.

LaBine, an Ontonagon native, graduated from the Ontonagon Area High School in 1986. He told graduates that he "flunked algebra" in high school and entered the Army, where he performed maintenance  and inspections on the Army's  observation helicopters. During a tour of duty in South Kor...

 
 
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