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Soldiers return home from Iraq to joyous welcome (Ft. Leonard Wood)
St. Louis Post Dispatch ^
| 03/04/2004
| Terry Ganey
Posted on 03/04/2004 9:20:04 PM PST by StarCMC
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:36:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. - After an 11-month tour of duty in Iraq, an engineering unit that calls itself the "Fighting Fifth" returned Thursday to its home at Fort Leonard Wood for a hero's welcome and the embraces of spouses, families and friends.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Missouri; War on Terror
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David Torres embraces his sons Christopher, 6, and Matthew, 3.
Hooah!
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posted on
03/04/2004 9:20:05 PM PST
by
StarCMC
To: Kathy in Alaska; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; bentfeather
Returning heroes ping
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posted on
03/04/2004 9:20:52 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)
To: StarCMC
Sweet story. My father still tells the story of the homecoming of my Great Uncle who was a captain Priest in the Army and who got the Silver Star at Anzio. Great Uncle Jim was happy but reserved and in later years told of how war was crap and how he saw the flower of youth on both sides perish (he was 34 already when he volunteered to be a chaplain). Our family relics include a Waffeen Lieutenant's binoculors and his Crucifix that he gave in his dying breaths to my Great Uncle, Father James Cloonan.
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posted on
03/04/2004 9:32:06 PM PST
by
Burkeman1
To: StarCMC
Welcome Home!May God bless our armed forces and all who wait for them to return home.
Good Job!
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posted on
03/04/2004 9:38:30 PM PST
by
MEG33
(John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
To: StarCMC
I remember watching some of our troops returning from Viet Nam (on tv.) Even as a little girl, it made me cry. I still cry tears of joy for our returning troops, tears of gratitude for the job they did, and tears of sadness for the ones they left behind and the prices they all paid. God bless them.
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posted on
03/04/2004 10:22:19 PM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Temporary tagline. Applied to State of New Jersey for permanent tagline (12/24/03).)
To: BykrBayb
Yes - there's always that point when the soldiers who have been standing in formation are set free and everyone runs for each other -- I kills me everytime.
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posted on
03/05/2004 7:11:12 AM PST
by
StarCMC
(God protect the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God protect them all!)
To: StarCMC
Great story!
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posted on
03/05/2004 11:47:46 AM PST
by
Diva Betsy Ross
(Every heart beats true for the red ,white and blue!)
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