Roger Westphal of Andover knows what hard work is all about.
When he was seven years old, he had to milk two cows on his family's farm in Danube before he went to school. When he was 19 years old, he enlisted in the U.S. Army to see what it was like. He was in the Army from 1957 through 1959.
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