Lt. Col. Holly Gay (left), commander of the Chicago Military Entrance Processing Station, presents a shadow box to the parents and sister of Sgt. Joe Vanek during a ceremony to mark the dedication of the Joseph M. Vanek Room at the Chicago MEPS. The room - where new recruits swear their oath of allegiance upon entering the military - was renamed in Vanek's honor during a ceremony on April 20 attended by family, friends and members of Vanek's old unit, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. Vanek, an infantry squad leader, was killed in Iraq in 2007.