Politics & Government
Ceremony Set in Lakewood for Troops Coming Home from War in Afghanistan
Event to take place at noon at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium.
More than 180 soldiers are coming home from the war in Afghanistan tomorrow — and the community is encouraged to give them a welcome homecoming in Lakewood.
The troops — with the 112th Engineer Battalion of Brook Park — are returning home from a yearlong deployment in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
According to a press release, the soldiers arrive at Cleveland Hopkins Airport on Friday morning and will have an escort up Brookpark Road and into Lakewood, where there will be a ceremony at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium around noon.
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The unit is made up of a special task force to clear roads in Afghanistan. In the unit of more than 750 soldiers — from National Guard units from four states — eight were killed and 105 were wounded in action.
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