Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Photo by Margie Wuebker/The Daily Standard

U.S. Army Spec. Kyle Sudhoff, right, receives a welcome and blessing from Deacon Thomas Huff in front of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Coldwater on Saturday afternoon. Sudhoff, who was injured in Afghanistan early this year, received a hero's welcome home from nearly 1,000 people with more waiting in the parking lot at St. Anthony Catholic Church.

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COLDWATER - "Mommy, what's a hero?" Zach Bruggeman asked his mother with flag in hand while waiting for the blare of sirens to signal the homecoming of U.S. Army Spec. Kyle Sudhoff on Saturday afternoon. [More]
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