By Alison Walker-Baird News-Post Staff
FREDERICK — Families and friends of local Marines who spent almost six months in Iraq took a collective sigh of relief as three coach buses rounded the corner and pulled into the unit's Frederick reserve center just after noon Tuesday.
"I didn't realize I'd been holding my breath all these months," said Barbara Bent of Eldersburg, after reuniting with her son, Staff Sgt. Gene Danfelt of Hagerstown.
Dam Security Unit-3, a 110-member reserve unit that deployed to Iraq in October,
arrived in North Carolina on Friday night and left Camp Lejeune early Tuesday morning, bound for Frederick.
The Marines reunited with friends and family at the Pfc. Flair U.S. Army Reserve Center after their buses wound through downtown Frederick.
Pockets of well-wishers gathered on Rosemont Avenue and Market Street, holding signs and American flags during the 80-degree day capped by a clear blue sky. Rows of tiny American flags flanked the reserve center's gate.
The horn of a police escort heralded the unit's arrival, family and friends cheering, clapping, with cameras flashing and video cameras rolling as buses carrying the Marines pulled up.
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