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U.S. Army Maj. Tim Kehoe left, with the 101st Airborne Division hugs his wife Jennifer, from Hampton, Va., after returning to Fort Campbell, Ky., from his deployment to Iraq Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004. Kehoe's return was an extra special event since it fell on the couple's 15th wedding anniversary. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast


U.S. Army Specialist David Casper, left, with the 101st Airborne Division from Sonoma, Calif., kisses his wife Courtney as Crystal Rourke, right, looks over the hangar floor as troops return to Fort Campbell, Ky., from a nearly one year deployment to Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


Family members of soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division, from left, Crystal Rourke, Ashley Owens, Gina McMullen, Roxanne Kwiecinsky, and her daughter Connie begin to yell and wave at a chartered jet as it taxis to a hangar with 200 troops returning from their deployment to Iraq at Fort Campbell, Ky., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


Maria Harris is held close by her husband Steven inside a hanger after Steven returned to Fort Campbell, Ky., from Iraq Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004. More than 600 troops from the 101st Airborne Division will return over the next two days to the western Kentucky post ending a nearly one year deployment. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


U.S. Army Specialist Jevon Woolbright, left, from Los Angeles, Calif., caresses the cheek of his wife Quishown inside an aircraft hanger after Cox returned to Fort Campbell, Ky., from Iraq Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004. More than 600 troops from the 101st Airborne Division will return over the next two days to the western Kentucky post ending nearly a one year deployment to Kuwait and Iraq. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


U.S. Army Sgt. Mark Cox of the 101st Airborne Division and his wife Dawn from Crawfordsville, Ind., laugh as they hug inside a hanger after Cox returned to Fort Campbell, Ky., from Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004.


Monica Farrall (L) kisses her husband, Maj. Adrian Farrall of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, after retuning home from Iraq at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.(AFP/Getty Images/Rusty Russell )


Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division arrive home at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. Ft. Campbell has suffered more casualties than any other Army post to date, having lost 59 soldiers in Iraq.(AFP/Getty Images/Rusty Russell)


7 posted on 01/08/2004 12:02:57 AM PST by SAMWolf (Ted Kennedy's Bumper Sticker: My other car is underwater.)
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To: SAMWolf
Awwww. I love these homecoming pictures. Thanks.
14 posted on 01/08/2004 5:01:01 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: SAMWolf; All
My dad was there!

109 Engineer Combat Battalion, 34th Infantry Division.

The fighting leading up to the Po crossing and west to Reggio and Piacenza was probably the heaviest action he saw throughout the war. He gave an interview to my daughter for a school assignment. Lots of funny stories - like the Italian colonel who insisted on shaving and putting on a clean uniform before surrendering to my dad the 1st lieutenant (who was the only officer handy to surrender to). Or the horse that belonged to the German colonel who surrendered the XLV Army Group - dad said it was an absolutely beautiful horse. Before dad went overseas he was with the 2nd Cavalry, so as he said "I took charge of the horse." He also took charge of three German stable orderlies. They looked after the horse (and lived in the barracks and got 3 squares, which they much preferred to a POW camp), and dad rode "Jack" every day.

16 posted on 01/08/2004 5:47:05 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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To: SAMWolf
I sure hope nobody congratulates those soldiers from the Screaming Eagles on a mission accomplished. We don't want to be "triumphalist" now do we? </sarcasm
99 posted on 01/08/2004 12:55:22 PM PST by colorado tanker ("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
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