U.S. soldiers return home

Alice Tijerina (R), embraces her mother in law Dora Tijerina as they anxiously await the arrival of SFC. Abelardo Tijerina at a welcome home ceremony for U.S. Army troops returning from Afghanistan on July 9, 2011 in Fort Carson, Colorado. Some 530 soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team were to arrive over the weekend, the last major element of the brigade to return from a year of heavy fighting against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's ... more 

Alice Tijerina (R), embraces her mother in law Dora Tijerina as they anxiously await the arrival of SFC. Abelardo Tijerina at a welcome home ceremony for U.S. Army troops returning from Afghanistan on July 9, 2011 in Fort Carson, Colorado. Some 530 soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team were to arrive over the weekend, the last major element of the brigade to return from a year of heavy fighting against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) less