Press photos by Scott M. NagyGarry Tapler, of Coplay, celebrates being named a Hometown Hero at the May 6 Lehigh Valley Phantoms game with his wife, Kathy, daughter Heather and grandson Gunner. Tapler served in the U.S. Air Force, 1973-78. He was stationed in Colorado, Turkey and North Carolina. He took a job with Tobyhanna Army Depot and was later asked to go to Balaad Air Force Base, Iraq, where Copyright - Scott M. Nagy