Area Marines return from duty in Iraq
By Paul Wood
Friday May 9, 2008
Darrell Hoemann
Champaign and Urbana firefighters and police line the Neil Street overpass over I-74 as a bus carrying a Marine unit returning from Iraq on Friday morning, May 9, 2008. Firefighters and police lined the overpasses in C-U to welcome the unit home.
PEORIA – Area Marine reservists who defused roadside bombs in Iraq returned to Peoria today.
The 33 Marines, several of whom are from East Central Illinois, returned after a seven-month deployment to Iraq; five of them are from the Champaign area, said Capt. Justin Miller.
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