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Soldiers Return Home

Soldiers Return Home - Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 9:22PM EST

Reported by: Eyewitness News
Thursday, Sep 10, 2009 @ 09:22pm EST
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, LEBANON COUNTY- Dozens of Pennsylvania Patriots are back home after being away for a year.

About 80 members of the 56th Stryker Brigade were dropped off at Fort Indiantown Gap Thursday.

They served in Iraq after training in Southern Mississippi.

The war in Iraq is the largest deployment of Pennsylvania National Guard since World War Two.

Right now as many as 1,500 soldiers and airmen are serving overseas.