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#8 staff story: Guard members return home
We've surveyed our staff members and readers for their opinions, and the results are in. Between now and Jan. 1, we'll be unveiling readers' choices for the top 10 news stories of the year - one story per day. Here's the #2 story of the year, as voted by readers.
The largest single deployment of Iowa National Guard troops since World War II ends with the soldiers' summer return.
THE YEAR'S COVERAGE:
- July 12: Cedar Rapids to hold homecoming for National Guard troops
- July 13: Iowa Guard soldiers arrive in Wisconsin
- July 14: The anticipation builds for “Red Bulls” return
- July 14: Families welcome troops in emotional homecoming
- July 16: 105 Iowa Guard members welcomed back in Cedar Falls
- July 20: Coming home
- July 22: Soldiers return home to Mount Pleasant
- July 29: Last Iowa Guard soldiers returning
- July 29: Last Iowa Guard soldiers returning
Spc. Christopher Clark, of Cedar Rapids, hugs his mother, Mary Roberson, of Cedar Rapids, following a welcome home ceremony for the Iowa Army National Guard's Brigade Special Troops Battalion, Second Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena on Saturday, July 30, 2011 in Cedar Rapids. The battalion was mobilized on Aug. 7, 2010 in Afghanistan in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (David Scrivner/SourceMedia Group)
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