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A Hero's Welcome Home For The Stryker Brigade

Oct-25-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Here's a longer article from KOMO 4 News.

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By Keith Eldridge

FORT LEWIS - A hero's welcome home for several members of the Fort Lewis Stryker brigade. They are just home from Iraq. The soldiers say there's more to the U.S. effort than just what you see on TV.

Three hundred members of the 1st Battalion 23rd Infantry regiment marched in to thunderous applause Monday. It is a big homecoming after the year-long deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The soldiers say this is what kept them going -- when it got tough in Iraq, the thought of coming home to loving arms pushed them on.

"Oh it feels so good to have him home. Thank you," said soldier’s wife Latanya Mann. Her husband is asked, “How does it feel to be back?' Staff Sgt.Tito Mann says, "It feels good to be back."

Soldier’s wife Megan Hanson says, "It's just so unreal, I can't believe he's home. I'm so happy to see him."

These Strykers say there are really two wars being fought. The one you see on TV with mostly bad news, but they say there's a lot of good coming out of what they're doing."

"I think people need to know that we're making a difference, we're winning," said Lt. Col. Buck James. "We're planting the seeds that will flourish."


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