A storyteller

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Laura Jimenez, Jesus's wife, cried with joy as she holds her one-year-old son, Leonardo. She was waiting a year for this moment when her husband would return home safely from Afghanistan. She is surrounded by other families welcoming their soldiers home with banners and open arms.

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The 277 ASB Hangar is one of the places that Fort Drum (Watertown, NY) use to welcome troops returning home. On October, 2012, more than 200 families gathered there to welcome home the FSC 7th Engineer Battalion that served in Afghanistan. One of them, U.S. Army Sargent First Class Jesus Jimenez (front row, third from right) had left only 10 days after his child was born. Since then he spent a whole year away from his family.

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Only after the Welcome Home Ceremony can families receive their soldiers. It was a very emotional moment; shouts and happy cries filled the air as they all ran to hug and kiss their soldiers who were away from home for a year serving their country. They are back home at last.

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