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10-26-06, 11:57 PM
Loved ones celebrate Marines’ homecoming
By Jon Brodkin/ MetroWest Daily News
Friday, October 27, 2006
DEVENS - Marine Staff Sgt. Dan Healey was married for only two days when he left for Iraq late last year, with little idea what awaited him.
“You really can’t understand what it’s like over there until you start living it,” Healey said yesterday, shortly after he and 450 other Marines of the 1st Battallion, 25th Regiment arrived in Devens to cheering crowds of friends and relatives.
The battalion lost 11 Marines killed in seven months of combat in and around Fallujah.
On hand to greet his comrades was Cpl. Bryan Sullivan of Milton, 22, who now walks with a cane after bones in both of his feet were broken by a bomb detonated underneath the Humvee on which he was a turret gunner.
For the returning Marines, yesterday’s 9 a.m. arrival was the first chance to see friends and family since their deployment began last December. Several Marines came home to babies born while they were overseas.
jbrodkin@cnc.com.
Ellie
By Jon Brodkin/ MetroWest Daily News
Friday, October 27, 2006
DEVENS - Marine Staff Sgt. Dan Healey was married for only two days when he left for Iraq late last year, with little idea what awaited him.
“You really can’t understand what it’s like over there until you start living it,” Healey said yesterday, shortly after he and 450 other Marines of the 1st Battallion, 25th Regiment arrived in Devens to cheering crowds of friends and relatives.
The battalion lost 11 Marines killed in seven months of combat in and around Fallujah.
On hand to greet his comrades was Cpl. Bryan Sullivan of Milton, 22, who now walks with a cane after bones in both of his feet were broken by a bomb detonated underneath the Humvee on which he was a turret gunner.
For the returning Marines, yesterday’s 9 a.m. arrival was the first chance to see friends and family since their deployment began last December. Several Marines came home to babies born while they were overseas.
jbrodkin@cnc.com.
Ellie