USS Clueless - Poignant moment

Stardate 20030430.2007

(Captain's log): I think the most poignant moment in war is when our soldiers come home.

Colorado Air National Guard Col. John Mooney, of Denver, is greeted by his wife Kelly, right, as he arrives at Buckley Air Force Base near Denver, Wednesday, April 30, 2003.

Colorado Air National Guard Maj. Tim Conklin, of Denver, is greeted by his wife Emily, right, as he arrives at Buckley Air Force Base near Denver, Wednesday, April 30, 2003. Lt. Cmdr. Chip Graber hugs his four-year-old daughter Madison after the EA-6B Prowler squadron, VAQ-139, returned to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash. The Electronic Attack Squardron returned after a nine and a half month deployment onboard the U.S. Abraham Lincoln.

Capt. Dan King, right, with the 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Wing, greets his son Nate, left, 21-months, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.

Lt. Dan-O McShane hugs his daughter, Samantha McShane, 3, and wife, Larissa McShane, as the Black Eagles of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113 arrive home to Naval Base Ventura County at Point Mugu, Calif.

And when some do not.

An unidenified U.S. Marine, left, plays 'Taps' as mourners listen and pray during the funeral of U.S. Marine Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez, 25, of Hialeah, Fla., Tuesday, April 29, 2003 in Hialeah. Gonzalez was killed when a refueling truck collapsed on him in Iraq earlier this month. Gonzalez, 25, made Hialeah his home after he fled his native Cuba for the United States in 1995.

Liudmila Gonzalez, 25, widow of Marine Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez, 25, of Hialeah, is hugged by her late husband's best friend, Vladimir Diaz, left, Tuesday, April 29, 2003, in Hialeah, Fla., during the funeral of her late husband.

Vickie Tipton is comforted by her friend Natalie Stern, left, Wednesday April 30, 2003 during a memorial service at Ft. Stewart, Ga., for 34 U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division soldiers who died during the war in Iraq. Tipton is the girlfriend of Spc. Daniel Cunningham Jr. and joined dozens of friends and family members to honor the dead soldiers.

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