Home, sweet home

Lance Cpl. Jamie Bowshier couldn’t stop holding and hugging his three children — two whom he met for the first time Friday morning.

Bowshier said the toughest thing about being in Iraq was being away from his family, as he cradled one of his 6-week-old twin sons with his 7-year-old daughter, Adrienne, running around.

When his twin sons, Matthew and Michael, were born in late August, the Marine was with the hard-hit, Ohio-based Lima Company in the Al Anbar province of western Iraq.

The 140 Marines in Lima Company are part of the battalion that lost 48 reservists. Lima Company took 16 of those deaths. Part of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, the company lost nine of its 16 reservists in August in the deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq.

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