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  • CA: Alex Nicoll makes it back home (Welcome Home, Marine!)

    02/05/2005 7:45:39 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 497+ views
    Times-Standard ^ | 2/5/05 | Mike Morrow
    McKINLEYVILLE -- Alex Nicoll scored his biggest touchdown Friday. A former football player and wrestler at McKinleyville High School, Nicoll returned home after being severely wounded almost three months ago in Iraq. Nicoll securely planted himself inside the gate at the Eureka/Arcata Airport, waved to friends and then smiled. Like he always does. "I may not have made it back in one piece, but I made it back," he said after embracing his younger brother Will and several friends. An infantry and urban warfare specialist in the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marine Division, Lance Cpl. Nicoll lost the lower...