Hometown Heroes Return Home
By: Julie Musgrave
Updated: March 18, 2009
A very special return home for some hometown heroes today. Three flights into Lubbock International will be bringing several Marines home after serving in Iraq.
34 marines are coming home tonight, so you can imagine the anticipation for the folks soon to arrive Reserve Center where a 'Welcome Home' Party will be held. Family and friends are all eager to have their sons and daughters return home after so many months away. The Marines will be picked up in vans from the airport then shuttled over to the Reserve Center where family and friends will welcome them home with signs, food, and probably even some tears. Families have driven in from New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Texas. Now, these 34 are the last of the 42 total that were deployed out of Lubbock. Some of the marines who were stationed in Iraq with the ones coming home tonight have already been back home, they're also waiting too to regroup with their band of brothers. The marines are flying out of California and will be arriving in Lubbock on three different flights at 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30.
