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Veterans welcome Roseburg High grad who nearly lost his life in Afghanistan

Army soldier Thomas Janusz took a calculated risk nearly two years ago while helping dismantle two explosives buried along a road in Afghanistan. “You use remote means as much as possible, but there always comes a point where you have to get out of the truck to make sure the scene is safe,” he said. As Janusz and his bomb disposal unit teammates finished up the job, the Roseburg High School graduate picked up what he thought was the deactivated charge from one of the improvised explosive devices. It detonated in his hand. On that day, Janusz’s grandmother, Donna Boyd, …

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