Aaron Hughes went to the Kedzie Armory in 2000 to enlist in the Illinois National Guard hoping to serve by helping place sandbags after catastrophic flooding along the Mississippi River..

Three years later, he was running transportation missions between Kuwait and Iraq in a 1953 truck with no radio and no maps. He never helped clean up flooding or provided assistance after any natural disaster.

“People don’t join the military to patrol the streets of major cities of the United States,” said Hughes, 43, who joined fellow members of About Face: Veterans Against the War on Tuesday in Federal Plaza to call on National Guard members to resist President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy troops to Chicago to combat crime.

The vets specifically suggested that National Guard members invoke their dut

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