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‘Die Hard’ actor makes a cameo at ball honoring Fort Lewis troops

Nov- 6-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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Actor Bruce Willis attended a formal homecoming ball Saturday night for members of the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center.

Willis praised the soldiers of “Deuce Four” and sat at the head table with Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla, the battalion’s commander, and Col. Robert Brown, the departing commander of Fort Lewis’ second Stryker brigade.

“Regardless of your feelings about the war in Iraq, at the very least there are young men and women who are asked every day to make the ultimate sacrifice and are not getting the respect back home they deserve,” Willis said in a brief interview. “Until that changes, I intend to keep talking about it.”

Later, he pumped up the troops in an unscripted address. As the “Die Hard” star spoke, several soldiers and their wives creeped forward to take pictures with their cell phone cameras.


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