Women to fly GIs home before Iraq duty

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Amanda Tyrell thought she wouldn't see her husband for a year and a half when he left in July for training and then military service in Iraq. But she'll get to see him one more time Sunday before he eventually departs to Iraq. She and other wives raised money to pay to fly some 74 Vermont National Guard members home for a visit.

"Through everyone's help they are going to be able to come home," she said Saturday as she prepared to drive to Burlington with her two young children, stay at a hotel, and meet the early morning arrivals.

The members of the 131st Engineering Unit will be on leave from training in Fort McCoy, Wis., until Thursday. They head to Iraq soon.

Their spouses got the idea to raise money for transportation after their husbands told them about a group of Arkansas women who rounded up enough money for a similar trip.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060917/ap_on_re_us/soldier_visit

[Ice4Clark]

1. These are some of my troops........

They're a fine bunch of soldiers.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. these are some of our wives, mothers, freinds...

They're a fine bunch too.

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