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Associated Press - October 21, 2009 12:45 PM ET
EAGLE, Wis. (AP) - Some youth enrolled in an alternative education program for high school dropouts at Fort McCoy are pitching in to help build a home for a soldier wounded in Iraq who was once in the program too.
Peter Blum says 30 Challenge Academy cadets will travel to Eagle in southeast Wisconsin on Thursday to help Homes for Our Troops build a home for Army Spc. Jason Schulz who lost his legs in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq in November 2007.
Blum, who is deputy director of the Challenge Academy, says Schulz graduated from the program in June 2004 and joined the Army a month later.
Challenge Academy offers high school dropouts and habitual truants a chance to earn their diploma and learn other life skills in a variety of ways.
Homes for Our Troops builds handicap accessible homes for severely injured veterans.
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