*Marines return home to Twentynine Palms
Another group of Marines is back with their families tonight after a happy homecoming at Twentynine Palms. The Third Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion just got back from Iraq.
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By Sheryl Kahn
NewsChannel 3
The Marines that arrived at Twentynine Palms today spent months on the front lines in Iraq, sometimes going weeks without talking to their families. Tonight, they're making up for lost time.
After too many months of waiting and worrying, it took a few more hours of standing by before these families got to see their Marines again. Some held babies that had never met their fathers. Many held welcome home sings. Most were nervous.
"I can't sit down, I'm so nervous."
January Silva waited for her fiancé, Brian, with her eight-year-old son, Brian's parents, and niece. They say it was a long, scary seven months spent not always know if Brian was okay. They heard that some of his fellow Marines were not.
"It was a good day when the white van didn't show up. What does a white van mean? It means they're bringing you news you don't want to hear," Marine dad Darrell Bottoms. But these buses brought only good news and on one of them was 26-year-old Lance Corporal Brian Bottoms.
January and Brian will be getting married in November. But between now and then, they've got a lot of catching up to do
The family will be able to celebrate tonight before Brian and his fellow Marines head back to base.