At the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program Invitational, “at risk” teens in between events spoke about life pressures that led them to drop out of high school.

Danielle Moore, 17, of Baltimore, said a former boyfriend almost led her astray. She dated a drug dealer. “I wasn?t going to school,” she said. “If I wasn?t here, I would be in jail.”

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