<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1f5fc1cb-b478-4ac8-80a6-f86762d3dcbd/2B2BDEC6-F9E6-4C0C-8721-7198A2B49C00/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1" href="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.twincities.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.twincities.com/img/91DA30E3-7BA8-43B1-984A-3CBA6892FD38" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1">As the last planeload of Minnesota National Guard members landed here Wednesday after their long duty in Iraq, one of the first to return home waited at the edge of a hangar to greet them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1">Sgt. John Kriesel lost portions of both legs in a Dec. 2 roadside bombing in Iraq that killed two of his closest friends. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1">Being here, with his fellow guardsmen for the first time since his injury, offered Kriesel some finality of his own. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1">In all, 2,600 men and women from the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1">had been deployed for 22 months, including 16 months in Iraq, serving longer there than any other active or reserve unit in the U.S. military </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.twincities.com/ci_6408223?source=rv&nclick_check=1">There were 270 returnees Wednesday, including 130 from Kriesel's B Company. 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