Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Home vandalized of Marine, double amputee, home for week

Injured Marine's home vandalized one week after his return
Written by
Ashley Yarchin
Dec 25, 2012

O'Fallon, Ill. (KSDK) - An injured Marine from O'Fallon was home for just a week after losing both his legs during a explosion in Afghanistan got a rude awakening this Christmas.

NewsChannel 5 has been following the story of Lance Cpl. Chris Van Etten since that IED went off last June, and was at Lambert St. Louis International Airport last week, when the 22-year-old and his mother got off the plane from California, where he's been in rehab since the injury.

What was supposed to be and has been a very happy homecoming took quite a turn Christmas Eve morning when a neighbor knocked on the door to tell the Van Ettens about the derogatory words written on the side of their house as well as the raw eggs splattered on it in several locations.
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