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  • Nat'l Guard Soldiers Return Home

    02/24/2009 5:01:04 PM PST · by grame · 3 replies · 266+ views
    WRTV 13 Indianapolis ^ | 2/24/09 | Andrea Morehead
    There are currently 142,000 troops in Iraq, but some Hoosier troops are back on American soil. Stout Field was packed with hundreds of families Tuesday for a homecoming celebration honoring 170 soldiers. But these soldiers are also missing two of their own: Sgt. Gary Henry and Spec. Jonathan Menke. Henry, who was from Indianapolis, and Menke, of Madison, died in Baghdad last August after debris from an improvised explosive device detonation on an overpass fell onto their vehicle. The Castor family knows their son Gary is a hero. "He was quite an individual, touched lives that we'll never know," said...