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    Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
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The hardest farewell
Family, friends and complete strangers gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of a 20-year-old soldier they hailed as "a true American hero." Army Spc. Cody Clark Grater was killed in action July 29 in Iraq.

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