PEORIA Heights — Chuck Brown stood before a crowd of about 100, most of them veterans like him, holding the single sheet of notepad paper with about three paragraphs of hand-written notes.He's not used to the public spotlight, but once the 89-year-old WWII veteran started talking he abandoned his short prepared speech to recount his combat experience — down to the difficulty of digging a foxhole in the volcanic ash of the Pacific Islands and how he was about [...]