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VASSALBORO -- On Friday, the Maine State Police honored those that excelled in responding to calls for service last year.

EAST PROVIDENCE — Hank Moniz was two years out of the Marines, a Vietnam veteran working as a machinist in 1969, when he was looking for something better. "I had to make some decisions as to where I was going," Moniz told The Providence Journal last week. He was married, owned a house, and had one child, with another one on the way. "I needed to get a job, and I needed stability in my life." Since high school, he had wanted to be a Rhode Island state trooper. "Many people had told me that was...