Marines return home
Date: 5/10/2008 Album ID: 514114
Photos by Matt Dayhoff
Marines from Engineer Company C return home to spirited welcome after serving in Iraq.
MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Welcome signs go up on the fence surrounding the Marine Reserve Center on Plank Rd. in Peoria in anticipation of the arrival Friday of Marine Engineer Company C after a seven-month deployment to Iraq.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Terms of endearment from the Page-Holliday family of Raymond, Illinois are written on a welcome home banner for Brian Page and the rest of the Marines from Engineer Company C who returned home from Iraq to a welcome-home ceremony Frday at the Marine Reserve Center in Peoria.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Friends and family cheer as a busload of Marines arrive at the Marine Reserve Center in Peoria for a welcome-home ceremony for 33 soldiers returning from a seven-month deployment to Iraq.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Marine combat engineer A.J. Conrad gets a hug from his wife Jennifer as he gets off the bus for a welcome-home ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Peoria.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Jillian Ulrich of Glasford gives her fiancé and fellow Marine Chris Hansen of Germantown Hills a big hug Friday at the Marine Reserve Center in Peoria.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Marine combat engineer Josh Lee of Engineer Company C greets his wife Cassie and their eight-month-old daughter Alyssa during a homecoming ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center, 7117 W. Plank Rd., in Peoria. Thirty-three Marines returned home after a seven-month deployment in Camp Fallujah, Iraq. Lee, of Philadelphia, Missouri, has not seen his daughter since October 2007.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Marine combat engineer Josh Lee of Engineer Company C greets his wife Cassie and their eight-month-old daughter Alyssa during a homecoming ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center, 7117 W. Plank Rd., in Peoria. Thirty-three Marines returned home after a seven-month deployment in Camp Fallujah, Iraq. Lee, of Philadelphia, Missouri, has not seen his daughter since October 2007.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Edina Pageo of Raymond, Illinois welcomes home her husband Brian during a ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Peoria.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Marines from Engineer Company C stand in formation during a welcome-home ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Peoria.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Cpl. Mark Randall Lord of Mackinaw holds his baby daughter Kierston, 4 months,  during a homecoming ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Peoria. In the background is Kierston's mother Minday Mountjoy.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Cpl. Mark Randall Lord of Mackinaw holds his baby daughter Kierston, 4 months,  during a homecoming ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Peoria. Cpl. Lord met his new daughter for the first time since his seven-month deployment to Iraq.
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MATT DAYHOFF/JOURNAL STAR  Tim Lehman of Dwight kisses his baby boy Ethan, 11 months, during a homecoming ceremony Friday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Peoria.
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