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Pennsylvania ( KDKA ) -- As kids in our area head back to school, there's one student at South Fayette High School who has been putting in a lot of work and hours before that.

It's all for a new monument that honors the school's alumni who have served our country.

"It was just a miraculous journey," South Fayette ninth grader Jasim Khilji said.

He wanted to make a beneficial Eagle project. So he reached out to the South Fayette School District.

"They got back to him, and really gave him a blank canvas," Naz Habib Khilji, Jasim's mother, said.

After some planning, came putting it together. The Khiljis, with some help, put lights, gravel, and edging to make an outsider circle.

Jasim's mom said a professional mason gave up multiple weekends of his

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