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Dayton Daily News, January 28, 2005

Election 2004 The Swing States: Down To The Wire

Dayton Family Mourns Son's Death in Iraq

DAYTON -- Just before his Marine unit left Okinawa for combat duty in Iraq last August, Richard Gilbert Jr. called his mom in Dayton and told her he wanted a full military funeral if he didn't make it back alive. His last phone call home came Monday. Gilbert, part of the Marine unit that spearheaded the assault on Fallujah, told Helen Gilbert he'd gotten through that key battle unscathed. He was to leave Iraq on Feb. 5.

Perma-Fix Neighbors Describe Health Woes

DREXEL -- Greg and Carol Plantz and their five young children have developed so many health problems in recent years they've turned their living room book shelves into a pharmacy. Lined up among the baby pictures and knickknacks are 25 medications. For Greg's dizzy spells and sinus problems. For Carol's asthma and migraines. For four children with asthma, sinus problems and allergies. For a fifth child who may have a kidney disease.

Corrections

- In Thursday's editions, Page E3, the Discovery page story should have reported that this year is the 100th anniversary of the publication of three of Albert Einstein's first groundbreaking physics papers. - In Thursday's Northwest Neighbors, Page 5, a story about a Clayton balloon business should have listed the company's Web site as www.balloonsgalore.net.

Bizarre Shootings Baffle Deputies ; 6 Gunmen Enter Camden Ave. House, Leave Two Wounded

HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County -- It's unclear why six men with guns, four of whom wore masks, kicked in the front door of a house on Camden Avenue early Thursday, shot a woman as she lay on a couch and a man who rushed in to check on the commotion, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said. The intruders demanded silence, then fled, taking nothing, the sheriff's office said.

Area Teens Lacking at Youth Forum

DAYTON -- The only thing lacking from Thursday's Youth Anti- Violence Forum were youth. And it took Tierra Days, a member of Dayton Public Schools Student Senate and forum panel participant, to call attention to that fact. "We need teens to be here," she said to the applause of hundreds at the Dayton Convention Center.