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Students restore '53 Dodge so Sag Harbor man can honor son, Jordan Haerter, killed in Iraq

Friday February 15, 2013 2:00 PM By Brittany Wait

Christian Haerter, 55, of Sag Harbor, takes a

Photo credit: Brittany Wait

Christian Haerter sat in the driver’s seat and couldn't tear his eyes off the hood of his 1953 Dodge M37 Power Wagon.

It made him proud to see an airbrushed painting of his son, Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, a Marine killed by a car bomb in Iraq in 2008 at the age 19, in military uniform standing in front of an American flag.

Haerter purchased the classic military vehicle for $6,500 two...

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