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Homecoming
 Executive officer on USS Donald Cook, Keith Wheeler holds his daughter, Peri as the USS Donald Cook returns to its homeport of Naval Station Norfolk, May 23. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 2nd class Susan C. Milton  A Navy wife and mother holds her nine-month-old child, while waiting in the pouring rain for her husband to arrive home from a six-month deployment aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman, Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3), and ships assigned to her Carrier Strike Force, played a key role in successful combat missions supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They are the first Atlantic Fleet aircraft carrier to return from the campaign that liberated the people of Iraq from the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Shawn Eklund  Shortly after his return from a six-month deployment with the USS HAWES, Gas Turbine System Technician (Electrical) Second Class Richard Brittanham stands with his mother, Shirley Hooper, before local television news camera crews covering the massive homecoming event, May 23, 2003. The USS HAWES was on a six-month deployment with the USS HARRY S. TRUMAN battlegroup to the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Mark A. Martinez  Lieutenant Commander Jim Conway, assigned to the ÒSwordsmenÓ of Fighter Squadron Thirty Two (VF-32) greets his 3 month-old daughter for the first time during the squadronÕs homecoming. VF-32 is returning home from deployment aboard the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). U.S. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate Airman Charles A. Ledbetter.
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