Hometown hero stops in North County to rest up for the holidays (photo)

Hometown hero stops in North County to rest up for the holidays
Dawn Halfaker is a former Rancho Bernardo High basketball player who lost her right arm in Iraq in the fall and is back home in Ramona for the holidays.
Don Boomer
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By: TERRY MONAHAN - Staff Writer

RAMONA ---- Whether it was roller-blading down the hill in front of the family home or getting friends to help launch her off the trampoline in the back yard, Army Capt. Dawn Halfaker has spent most of her life on the move.

But Halfaker, 25, a former star basketball player at Rancho Bernardo High who also played four seasons at West Point, has needed all the energy she could muster since she was wounded June 19 in an ambush near Baqubah in Iraq.

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