Family members sit on the front row, behind a large banner for 2nd Lt. Tony Morakot. The group lives in Tulsa and they left home at 6:45 to travel to the ceremony. When 84 Oklahoma Army National Guard troops marched into the hangar at the Air National Guard base in southwest Oklahoma City Saturday morning, April 7, 2012, about 350 people, mostly family and friends, gave them a rousing and enthusiastic welcome. Their homecoming celebration marked the final return of soldiers with the 45th who had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
