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Residents in Wirt County aren't focusing all their attention on just one injured war veteran.
A dinner in Elizabeth raised $2,000 dollars for another Wirt native, Marine Sergeant David Bell, who hasn't lived in the
county in eight years.
The twenty-seven-year-old instructor at the Amphibious Assault School Battalion at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, was
seriously injured during a training accident involving a jammed 40-millimeter grenade launcher. It cost him his left eye.
His parents, Ernie and Betsy Bell, and older brother Daniel, said David always wanted to be a Marine.
Betsy Bell says she doesn't know what the family would have done without all the community support. The family needed
money to fly to California, among other expenses.
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