The Third Battallion, 25th Marines, the group that Aaron deployed with, has come home. Praise the Lord. There are 900 Marines in a battallion; in the 3/25, 48 were killed and 150 were wounded during their seven months in Iraq. That is a lot of people for one battallion to lose, and I know that for the families with Marines in this group, this has been a long, scary seven months. Aaron has some dear friends among those men, and it's my understanding that he traveled to Camp Lejune this week to see them when they arrived there. Our joy at their return knows no bounds. We have been anxious for them every day.

Here's an article about the group from Ohio, who suffered particularly heavy losses, coming home.