CALL OF DUTY - Bartlett teen graduates early follows brothers U.S. Marine footsteps -\r
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BARTLETT — As children, brothers Anthony and Alexander Pineda would play war soldiers together, says Alexander, a 17-year-old Bartlett High School graduate who will join the U.S. Marine Corps this month, becoming the second son in his family to make a military commitment. “I was very surprised when he said he wanted to enlist in the Marines,” said his mother, Monica Pineda, who explained Alexander’s previous consideration was to join the Catholic priesthood. The family’s parish is St. Walter Church in Roselle. “(The U.S. Marines) have been great to my older son, Anthony,\r
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