"...leaving the home fires burning..."

They're on their way home!!!! (sometime soon anyway!) There just aren't enough exclamation marks I can put here to show how elated, excited, relieved and just plain eager everyone back home is to see our boys come home.

At this time no details are available of exactly who and when is in transition, mostly for security reasons. Please contact your Key Volunteer or attend a family day for information.

Some have made it back to NC already but many of the 3/25 are still in Iraq.

Safe travels. God speed to all of them.

article:
Lima Company Closer To Coming Home

Families say a Columbus-based Marine Reserve unit that lost 16 members in Iraq has moved to a safer area in a first step toward returning home.

Members of Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment have told parents and spouses of the transition in recent days.

Nine members of Lima Company were among 14 Marines who died August third in the deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Citing security concerns, a Marine spokesman won't confirm the troop movements. But he does say that Lima Company and the rest of the battalion are due at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, early next month.

He says the reservists are expected to return to their home bases during the second week of October.