U.S. soldiers get emotional welcome home
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - Holding a sign that said "Welcome Home Charlie," Beth Landis could barely contain her emotion as she waited to embrace her husband, a U.S. infantry sergeant, a year after he was sent to Iraq.
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For relatives and friends of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was the place to be.
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ANYANG, South Korea  - Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home to an uncomfortable welcome on Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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About 140 US soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan will get a courtside view of the action at a Dallas Mavericks game Saturday night, thanks to season-ticket holders who offered their seats in a show of gratitude.
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After living under fear of death for 42 days, three Indian truck drivers released by their Iraqi captors today returned home to an emotional welcome by their families here.
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Fifty soldiers from the 14th Signal Regiment are back at their base after completing six months in Afghanistan.
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BAQUBA - The 49 homeward-bound Iraqi Army recruits probably took comfort at the sight of policemen at a roadside checkpoint at night.
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Tears of happiness, warm embraces and furiously clicking cameras greeted three Indians Friday as they returned home to family, friends and officials after 42 days in the custody of Iraqi militants.
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Amid sobs and waving American flags, hundreds of Maryland Army National Guard soldiers bid goodbye to family and friends yesterday and prepared to deploy to Iraq, part of the Guard's largest deployment from the state since World War II.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Earlier this year, it was the 20,000 troops of the 101st Airborne Division who were welcomed here...
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(New York-AP) Nov. 25, 2004 - There were parades, home-cooked feasts, and our soldiers even found ways to celebrate far from home.
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For some college students, the hardest part about studying abroad wasn't adjusting to life in a foreign country. It was coming home.
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They are returning home with a sense of accomplishment, but also with feelings of anger and frustration, even despair.
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America's presence in Iraq is moving into its 22nd month, a time that has been alternately frustrating and fulfilling to the young men and women who are far from home and far from done with their mission.
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SOLDIER Paul Lowe (right) e-mailed his family from the bleak desert base of Camp Dogwood last week saying: âI just want to get home.
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The U.S. Army welcomed the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment to its new home in southern Germany on Friday as the military moved ahead with plans to shed its heavy Cold War divisions in favor of a lighter, more mobile force.
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FORT RILEY, Kan. -- Their camouflage on, their wives carrying infants, their older children carrying flags, the soldiers of George W. Bush's surge crowded into a gymnasium for their brigade deployment ceremony, a last public viewing before they disappeared into Iraq.