Cheering Families Embrace Returning Marines

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - A badly battered Marine Corps unit came home Friday to miles of welcoming neighbors and a sea of cheering family members who held the camouflage-clad reservists in long embraces and cried as they kissed over and over.

People waving flags along a 20-mile parade route roared as four buses passed carrying the 140 Marines of Lima Company from Columbus' main airport to the other airport across town. Some of the southern Ohio reservists wrote "thank you" on pieces of paper that they held up to the windows.

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Cheering Families Embrace Returning Marines

The Columbus-based company, a branch of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, lost 16 Marines in combat, nine of those in the deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq. Th...

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