Members of the 1161st Transportation Company walk into the Ephrata High School gym during Saturday's farewell ceremony. The company is deploying to Iraq. Photo by Lynne Lynch/Columbia Basin Herald
March 9, 2009
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March 9, 2009 9 p.m.
Ephrata sends off 1161st
'Citizen soldiers' bound for Iraq
EPHRATA — Soldier Rick Garces was tearfully hugging members of his family after Saturday’s farewell ceremony for about 120 members of the 1161st Transportation Company.