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Coming Home: The 3rd ID Returns

Aired August 08, 2003 - 05:45   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The loss of a comrade in battle is the ultimate heartache for soldiers. Members of the 3rd Infantry Division lost 38 fellow soldiers in Iraq as they battled their way to Baghdad and beyond. The rest, weary and homesick, are finally starting to come home now.
Here's one homecoming celebration at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(CROWD CHEERING)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Class dismissed.

(CROWD CHEERING)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What was the worst thing about being over there?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not knowing if you were going to come back.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And what now for the next few days, what are you looking forward to?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vacation. I got a lot of holidays to make up for so.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you want to do, do you just want to go and sit in your easy chair or do you want to go out to dinner, what?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Take a shower.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, man, get out. Get out and see the town, get around people, American people.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Man, that made me cry. CNN's Brian Cabell will have more on the 3rd Infantry's homecoming on "AMERICAN MORNING." That's in the 7:00 a.m. Eastern hour.

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Aired August 8, 2003 - 05:45   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The loss of a comrade in battle is the ultimate heartache for soldiers. Members of the 3rd Infantry Division lost 38 fellow soldiers in Iraq as they battled their way to Baghdad and beyond. The rest, weary and homesick, are finally starting to come home now.
Here's one homecoming celebration at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(CROWD CHEERING)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Class dismissed.

(CROWD CHEERING)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What was the worst thing about being over there?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not knowing if you were going to come back.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And what now for the next few days, what are you looking forward to?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vacation. I got a lot of holidays to make up for so.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you want to do, do you just want to go and sit in your easy chair or do you want to go out to dinner, what?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Take a shower.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, man, get out. Get out and see the town, get around people, American people.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Man, that made me cry. CNN's Brian Cabell will have more on the 3rd Infantry's homecoming on "AMERICAN MORNING." That's in the 7:00 a.m. Eastern hour.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM AT www.fdch.com