Bethany - White buses rolled into Bethany with returning members of the Oklahoma National Guard's 45th Infantry Brigade.
Three homecoming ceremonies were held Monday at Southern Nazarene University. Similar ceremonies will be held over the next week as more troops return.
A total of 2,600 soldiers with the 45th were deployed to Iraq (
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About 700 have returned to Oklahoma so far. The rest of the soldiers are at Fort Bliss, Texas, for processing before they return to Oklahoma.
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