Sergeant Yuri Barilo

This particular Veterans History Project story is not like most of the others.It'll be told in three segments, like a good Clint Eastwood movie, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

The Good:

Yuri Barilo has his family roots and some of his early life as a citizen of Estonia. In high school, he took advantage of a foreign exchange student program. He went to what would be a senior year in Ocean City, N.J. He was fluent in three languages.

Yuri LOVED America! There was nothing he could not enjoy. He stayed after graduation and with the help of grants, went on to college. He earned college degr...