Posted on 08/28/2004 12:27:16 PM PDT by SittinYonder
COCHRAN - The arduous journey home for Iraqi soldier Michael Newton finally ended Friday in the driveway of his parents' home.
Newton, severely injured in a mortar attack May 7 in Iraq, stepped gingerly out of a car to the waiting arms of tearful family and friends.
He spent the past three months at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, where for a time it appeared the homecoming may never happen.
His own tears when he set foot in Cochran were not just about his happiness to be home, but his sadness over leaving what he called his second home and his second family. The staff of Bethesda, he said, lined the halls to say goodbye as he left Friday.
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In fact, one of Newton's biggest regrets about the attack is that it ended a mission that he found thoroughly satisfying. He recalled Iraqi children giving soldiers a thumbs up as they traveled in convoys and noted that many Iraqis would tip them off about trouble ahead.
"That's what you don't see on TV," he said. "They don't show the people who want us there."
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Thought you might want to see a Georgia boy we can be proud of.
God Bless Our Troops!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The lib press is trying to do to our soldiers again what they did to them when they came home from Vietnam. It's going to take us and reporters like Wayne Crenshaw who have the courage to tell the truth and welcome these kids home. They need to know that they're heros to us.
I agree 100%.
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