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Changing positions three or four times a day as part of a mobile unit in Vietnam, Calogero Lombardo survived relentless marches, blistering heat, crippling diseases, and wounds to his leg, knee and back during a 12-month tour of duty. The fourth of six children, Calogero Lombardo was born in Altavilla Milicia, Sicily, to Onofrio and Maria (Bucaro) Lombardo. The family immigrated to Chicago in 1956 when Lombardo was 6 years old, settling into the Little Sicily neighborhood of St. Philip Benizi Parish on the city’s Near North Side. In 1961, they bought a home in the neighborhood near Riverview Park. …
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