[ About 100 Soldiers Were Welcomed Back to Kansas On Wednesday ]

The Topeka Capital-Journal › August 23, 2004

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About 100 soldiers were welcomed back to Kansas on Wednesday. Fifty others said farewell as they prepared to start a year's tour of duty in Iraq.

During a ceremony at a hangar at Fort Riley's Marshall Army Air Field, soldiers with the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, who were deployed in September 2003 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom, were honored for their service and reunited with their families. They had arrived in Kansas earlier in the day at Topeka's Forbes Field.

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[ About 100 Soldiers Were Welcomed Back to Kansas On Wednesday ]

"You can't imagine the excitement and the tears in the hangar when 100 soldiers who haven't seen their families for a year come home," said Fort Riley spokeswoman Sam Robinson. "I saw several soldiers who were seein...

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