Soldier, family reunite - if only briefly - in video conference
By Amy F. Reiter
Thursday July 10, 2008
Robin Scholz
Army Spc. Greg Regan, 20, a soldier stationed in Iraq as part of C Company, First Battalion, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment, waves to his family and friends – seen in the screen inset – who gathered Wednesday at the University of Illinois Extension Office in Champaign for a video-conference visit.
CHAMPAIGN – If only you could hug through a camera, Army Spc. Greg Regan would have been surrounded by arms.
But even without the hugs, the 20-year-old soldier – stationed in Iraq in C Company, First Battalion, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment – could see the love of his family, more than a dozen of them, sitting across the room from him, several thousand miles away.
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