Kids from eastern Europe gain health, normalcy in Missouri
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Aug. 13, 2006

He sits in the stands as music in a foreign language fills the ballpark air on a sweaty Sunday summer night for a game with the local team, the Blacksnakes.

The boy, Ihar Melnikau, smiles and laughs with a little girl next to him, three rows up from the American family he's staying with.

Clean food and water, clear air and family are basics. Easy to overlook, but hard to live without.

Twenty years ago, a nuclear explosion took many of those away from people in Belarus, Ihar's country.

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