Homecoming

This was on the Kansas Local News Dec 5th, 2006
You see my daughter Nelja & DJ in this video- DJ was in Iraq for 13 months.
(I could not attend this ceremony as I am in Oregon caring for my young twin boys. Nelja's side of the family is from Oregon, DJ's family is from Michigan)

News link, video & story found here called:
Holiday homecoming emotional for soldiers' wife, family
300th Military Police Company welcomed home in redeployment ceremony
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.49abcnews.com/news/2006/dec/05/holiday_homecoming_emotional_soldiers_wife_family/">http://www.49abcnews.com/news/2006/dec/05/holiday_homecoming_emotional_soldiers_wife_family/</a>
(note - the news web site requires you have Quicktime installed in order to watch it.)

**NOTE**:
The reporter in this news video states that there were no casualities. However, a major incident took place while DJ & his comrads were in Ramadi, Iraq Sept. 18, 2006. (fortunately DJ was not on shift when this happened)
This was originally reported by AP, but led to confusion to the families involved.

The article below updates what happened to DJ's & Nelja's friends from the 300th MP company from a Michigan online News report here:

<b>Wayland soldier survives suicide bomb</b>
Oct 20, 2006

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mlive.com/news/advancenewspapers/penasee/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1159816889322670.xml&coll=10">http://www.mlive.com/news/advancenewspapers/penasee/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1159816889322670.xml&coll=10</a>

THE ABOVE NEWS LINK STORY IS DEAD, but I saved it here:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cindyrilla.com/300thMP.html">http://www.cindyrilla.com/300thMP.html</a>

See another video of Nelja Singing here:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsbl9_nelja-sings-for-mom">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsbl9_nelja-sings-for-mom</a>