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Soldiers Finally Home
posted 9:56 am Sun October 19, 2008
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Bethany - Some 325 soldiers from the Oklahoma National Guard are back, eating home-cooked meals, getting hugs from family and showering in their own bathrooms.
Members of the 45th Infantry Brigade, Company A, 1st Battalion of the 180th Infantry Regiment based in McAlester and the 1245th Transportation Company in Madill got a head start on some of that yesterday when they returned after being in Iraq (web|news) since January.
Specialist Kinnlee Khoury, who served as a combat medic at Camp Cropper near Iraq wept as she and her mother, Roxanna, embraced.
While Khoury got to keep in touch with her family through e-mail instant messaging and telephone calls, it's nothing like the real thing, her father, James, said.
Kinnlee Khoury expected to do more hugging and then dig into a meal of roast beef, vegetables and green-bean casserole when she got home.
Staff Sergeant Chad Broughton, who works with Khoury at Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa, said taking a shower is the first thing he planned to do when he got home.
After that, he planned to savor some steaks.
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Information from: Tulsa World
Members of the 45th Infantry Brigade, Company A, 1st Battalion of the 180th Infantry Regiment based in McAlester and the 1245th Transportation Company in Madill got a head start on some of that yesterday when they returned after being in Iraq (web|news) since January.
Specialist Kinnlee Khoury, who served as a combat medic at Camp Cropper near Iraq wept as she and her mother, Roxanna, embraced.
While Khoury got to keep in touch with her family through e-mail instant messaging and telephone calls, it's nothing like the real thing, her father, James, said.
Kinnlee Khoury expected to do more hugging and then dig into a meal of roast beef, vegetables and green-bean casserole when she got home.
Staff Sergeant Chad Broughton, who works with Khoury at Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa, said taking a shower is the first thing he planned to do when he got home.
After that, he planned to savor some steaks.
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Information from: Tulsa World
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