Elmer Dorsten, a local WWII veteran, talks to local students about his experiences in Europe where he received four purple hearts in combat. An estimated 12,000 students are expected to have visited the Healing Field in Maria Stein by the time the field closes this evening.

MARIA STEIN - Jenna Watercutter, a seventh-grader from St. Henry, knows all about heroes. There are three in her family, grandpa Albert Steinbrunner, uncle Vern Steinbrunner and cousin Matt Galdeen, she says while visiting the . . .