Nineteen members of the National Guard returned home early on Friday.
The troops, members of the 684th Medical Company, were told they would be deployed for a year when they left for Afghanistan on Sept. 11 this year, 10TV?s Jessa Goddard reported.
Instead, they returned early to a welcome ceremony in Westerville.
Five-year-old Addison Yochum said that she was happy to have her dad home ? her wish for the holidays.
Her father, Capt. Robert Yochum, said that it was a gift to return to his family.
?I couldn?t have asked for anything else,? Yochum said. ?This is the best present we could have had.?
Yochum was assigned in Afghanistan as a med-surge nurse, whose duties included working in the emergency room and intensive care unit treating patients.
?We found out on Thanksgiving Day that some of us were going to be going home, so it was kind of the result of the troop draw down that took place,? Yochum said.
The Yochum family said that they had put Christmas on hold until after the homecoming.
?We're going to celebrate our Christmas on Sunday,? Yochum said.
The returning troops were part of a larger unit made up of 80 National Guard members. The remaining troops will return home to Ohio in the new year, Goddard reported.
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