Last night I went to welcome home some local heroes. 50 Marines came home. Some missed a lot of things while they were gone. One missed the birth of his baby. One came off the bus, soon after, hearing Happy Birthday. It was a wonderful night and it felt good to see so many people show up to say welcome home with balloons and flags, big smiles and really loud cheers. I'll have more on this over the weekend since I shot some video on it.
Crowd cheers Marines returning home to Central Florida
February 25, 2011|By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel
Of the many parents who waited nervously for their sons and daughters to come home, Lee Entrekin knew as well as any where they had been, and how fotunate they were to return home safely.
Entrekin left home to serve in the U.S. Air Force in Iraq in 2005 and 2006, returning in time, he said, to see his son head to the Middle East as a Marine. His boy returned home safe from that deployment, only to go back about nine months ago.
Thursday night, Lance Cpl. Gregory Entrekin was among about 50 veterans of Afghanistan who returned home to Central Florida. And to his father's great pride and elation, "he came home in one piece."
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Crowd cheers Marines returning home to Central Florida
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