Monday, January 7th, 2008
Send-off to war
Photo by Janie Southard/The Daily Standard

More than 70 local soldiers left Saturday with the Ohio National Guard for several weeks training at Fort Hood, Texas, before deploying to Kuwait for about a year's duty. Those soldiers who served in other conflicts saluted the flag at the beginning of Saturday's farewell ceremonies in St. Marys.

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