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Welcome home, veterans - and come home safe, soldiers

February
18

As you can see, this is The Journal News/LoHud.com’s new online forum for Lower Hudson Valley veterans, their families and friends. Every day, Rich Liebson and I will post information about events and issues pertaining to veterans affairs, and we hope you’ll also post comments, questions, and suggestions of your own.

This blog is also a place where we can talkdeploy.jpeg about current military issues, such as today’s Journal News story about the 812th Military Police Company of the Army Reserve, based in Orangeburg, getting ready to deploy to Iraq. If you know of any Westchester, Putnam or Rockland residents serving overseas, we’d love to hear about or from them.

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This entry was posted on Monday, February 18th, 2008 at 10:00 am by Nicole Neroulias.
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6 Responses to “Welcome home, veterans - and come home safe, soldiers”

  1. Laura Williams February 19th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Thanks LoHud for the coverage you have provided about the 812th Military Police Battalion (Combat Support) I will make sure that the unit is informed of your great coverage.
    As a wife of a soldier from this unit, and the Family Readiness Group Coordinator, I have made it a point and will continue to make it a point to keep our families and soldiers informed of what is going on.
    Thank you to everyone who came out and supported our soldiers on Sunday as they left. To any family members of this unit, please feel free to contact me if you need anything. If I don’t have the answer, I will get it for you.
    I can be reached via email or phone.
    Thank you again
    Laura Williams

  2. Nicole Neroulias February 19th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks, Laura. Please keep us posted on how your husband, the unit, and the families are doing, and we’ll share the news with our readers.

    We can also help spread the word if the soldiers need anything, in terms of care packages, etc., while they’re overseas. (When a friend of mine was serving in Afghanistan, he said his unit loved getting books and DVDs, especially.)

  3. Laura Williams February 20th, 2008 at 8:12 am

    I absolutely will! thank you for the offer!!

  4. Cynthia Fox March 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    I just got word from my son that he left Iraq on Saturday and is at another location getting ready to return home to the US. It has been 7 long months and finally I am seeing the light that my only son will be home soon. I will continue to pray for the safe return of all the other young men and women still fighting for peace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thanks for a job well done and come home to your family and friends soon. Does anyone know of any organization in Rockland or Lo-Hud area that officially welcomes our troops home?

  5. Nicole Neroulias March 4th, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Wonderful news, Cynthia! Are you a Rockland resident? E-mail me (nnerouli@lohud.com) and we can talk about covering his return.

  6. Laura Williams March 13th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    That is wonderful news. Go to Operation Gratitude’s web site, I do believe that they do something for the soldiers return. As far as local organizations, I am not sure. I would check with your son’s Unit Family Readiness Group. In fact, if you do not know who a contact person is within the FRG contact me directly and I will find out for you. I can be reached on yahoo (richiegirl0204). I have several email addresses but that is the only one I feel comfortable putting on this type of format.
    Take care and I hope to hear from you soon

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"At Ease!" is a place for Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard veterans to share their experiences and voice their opinions. It doesn't matter if you served during war or peacetime, overseas or stateside, active duty or reserves, as a draftee or volunteer - if you served in uniform, this is the place for you.

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KatieRich Liebson is a "military brat" who grew up on bases in the U.S. and Germany during his father's 23-year career as an Air Force enlisted man. Rich enlisted in the Army in 1976 and until his discharge in 1980 was assigned to the 78th Engineer Battalion in Ettlingen, Germany, as a public information specialist and translator. He's been a reporter at The Journal News and its forerunner, the Reporter Dispatch, for more than 20 years. During that time he's covered a variety of beats and has written frequently about veterans and veterans issues.
HemaHema Easley was born and raised in India, where she worked as a reporter for The Associated Press and United Press International. While in India she wrote about the insurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir and covered the 1999 India-Pakistan conflict in the mountains of Kashmir. She joined The Journal News in 2002. She has covered municipal government in Westchester and now covers on social services in Rockland as well as military issues.

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