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Focused and disciplined, Marines still heard the cheers. Staff Sgt. Thomas Powell knew what he was in for as he arrived in Oceanside at 8 a.m. "I was in the Boy Scouts in Fresno and we did a parade," he said. "It's not really something I had planned on again." Powell would still be in a uniform, but this parade would be decidedly different for the 37-year-old Marine, who on May 30 returned to his home in Vista after spending seven months in Kuwait and Iraq. It would leave him ---- after the mile-long march through tens of thousands of...

OCEANSIDE - Get out the red-white-and-blue bunting. This city is planning its biggest homecoming parade ever for U.S. troops next month. City Councilman Jack Feller expects 15,000 to 20,000 troops to march along Coast Highway for the event, which he said will be much larger than the Proud To Be An American Parade in 1991 when troops returned from the Gulf War. About 1,000 troops marched while 100,000 people watched that Saturday, April 27, according to crowd estimates. From 80,000 to 100,000 spectators are expected at this year's Defenders of Freedom Parade on Saturday, Oct. 25. It will welcome home...

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