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Family, friends and volunteers from Operation Welcome Home Maryland greet more than 300 service members returning from overseas deployments arriving at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Dec. 19, 2011.

HOMECOMING HUGS

Family, friends and volunteers from Operation Welcome Home Maryland greet more than 300 service members returning from overseas deployments arriving at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Dec. 19, 2011.

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