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Nine-year-old Tommy Alter of Highland Park, Ill., meets with (from left) Petty Officer 3rd Class Derek Johnson, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kris Filion, Lt. Dan Schrader and Cmdr. Shad Soldano, a rescue crew from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich., during a reunion at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Ill, July 29, 2014. Tommy, an aunt and a cousin were rescued by the crew July 11 after being stranded overnight on Green Bay for more than 15 hours after their kayaks went adrift. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf |
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Nine-year-old Tommy Alter, from Highland Park, Ill., shows Lt. Dan Schrader (left), Petty Officer 2nd Class Kris Filion (background), and Petty Officer 3rd Class Derek Johnson from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich., a toy LEGO Coast Guard helicopter he made for the crew for a reunion at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Ill, July 29, 2014. Tommy, an aunt and a cousin were rescued by the crew July 11 after being stranded overnight on Green Bay for more than 15 hours. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf |
Lt. Dan Schrader from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich, shows 9-year old Tommy Alter of Highland Park, Ill., the controls of a Coast Guard rescue helicopter during a reunion at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Ill., July 29, 2014. Tommy, an aunt and a cousin were rescued by Schrader and his crew after being stranded overnight on Green Bay when their kayaks went adrift July 10. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf |
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Kris Filion and Lt. Dan Schrader, from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich., meet 9-year-old Tommy Alter during a reunion at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Ill., July 29, 2014, two weeks after Tommy was rescued by the crew from Green Bay, Wis. Tommy, an aunt and cousin had been stranded on Green Bay overnight when their kayaks went adrift July 10. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf |
Cmdr. Shad Soldano, from Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich., meets Jay Alter, father of 9-year-old Tommy Alter, for the first time during a reunion at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Ill., July 29, 2104. Tommy, an aunt and a cousin were rescued by Soldano and his crew after being stranded overnight on Green Bay when their kayaks went adrift July 10. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf |
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Lt. Dan Schrader, of Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich., talks with the media during a reunion at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Ill., with the family of a 9-year-old boy Schrader and his crew rescued two weeks earlier from Green Bay Wis., July 29, 2014. Tommy Alter, an aunt and a cousin had been stranded overnight on Green Bay when their kayaks went adrift July 10. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf |