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==Background==
==Background==
Rarick was born in rural Waterford in LaPorte County in northwestern [[Indiana]]. He graduated from Goshen High School in Goshen, Indiana and studied at [[Ball State Universi]y]] (then Teacher's College) in Muncie, Indiana.<ref name="bioguide">{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000065|title=RARICK, John Richard|publisher=United States Congress|accessdate=April 21, 2021}}</ref>
Rarick was born in rural Waterford in LaPorte County in northwestern [[Indiana]]. He graduated from Goshen High School in Goshen, Indiana and studied at [[Ball State University]] (then Teacher's College) in Muncie, Indiana.<ref name="bioguide">{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000065|title=RARICK, John Richard|publisher=United States Congress|accessdate=April 21, 2021}}</ref>
Rarick then entered the [[United States Army]]'s Specialized Training Program and was sent to [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he lived in the college barracks. He was then dispatched to the European Theater of Operations with the infantry during [[World War II]]. He was captured at the [[Battle of the Bulge]] and later escaped from a [[Germany|German]] [[prisoner of war]] camp at Würzburg. He was awarded the [[Bronze Star]] and the [[Purple Heart]].<ref name="bioguide"/><ref name="obit">John Rarick's Obituary, ''The Baton Rouge Advocate, September 16, 2009.</ref>
Rarick then entered the [[United States Army]]'s Specialized Training Program and was sent to [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he lived in the college barracks. He was then dispatched to the European Theater of Operations with the infantry during [[World War II]]. He was captured at the [[Battle of the Bulge]] and later escaped from a [[Germany|German]] [[prisoner of war]] camp at Würzburg. He was awarded the [[Bronze Star]] and the [[Purple Heart]].<ref name="bioguide"/><ref name="obit">John Rarick's Obituary, ''The Baton Rouge Advocate, September 16, 2009.</ref>