IRAQ: Marine families post their greetings

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It’s a tradition at Camp Pendleton: When the Marines come home from Iraq or Afghanistan, families hang welcoming banners on the fence outside the main gate. Take those greeting the recent return from Iraq of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment.

Some of the banners have a sweetness to them.

Others have a certain suggestiveness.

And others, well, are straight-forward in their messages.

—Tony Perry, at Camp Pendleton.