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Peace Corps legacy lives on here

Times photos: Anthony Wahl Peace Corps volunteers from the region are marking the groups 50th anniversary. Drs. John and Mary Frantz, of Monroe, and their three children served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, 1968 to 1970.

Times photos: Anthony Wahl Peace Corps volunteers from the region are marking the groups 50th anniversary. Drs. John and Mary Frantz, of Monroe, and their three children served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, 1968 to 1970.

MONROE - For more than one-fifth our nation's history - half-a-century - there's been a Peace Corps.