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Hiking in their fathers’ and grandfathers’ footsteps

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A woman in a purple short and baseball cap smiles as she stands with hiking poles next to other people in a wooded area on an Italian mountain.
Stina Sieg/CPR News
Buena Vista’s Rikki Swedhin, smiles at the top of Riva Ridge alongside her friend Peggy Hall, of Grand Junction. During a past trip to Italy, they found the fox hole on the ridge that belonged to Hall’s father.

10th Mountain Division descendants are in the high country... of Italy. They are retracing the tracks of their forebears who helped win World War II during 1945's Battle of Riva Ridge. CPR's Stina Sieg is following them on the 80th anniversary.