20th Jun, 2008

Medical soldiers serving in Iraq get warm homecoming

BEDFORD - They bandaged gunshot wounds and performed emergency surgery on blast victims. So it’s no surprise the contingent of medical soldiers returning from Iraq yesterday yearned for nothing more than family time and some New England staples.

“All I want is a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee,” Captain Gayle Nowak, a nurse from Worcester, said, embracing her 8-year-old daughter, Maria. “We’re going to go home this afternoon and go swimming.”

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