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Fighting 69th to lead NYC St. Patrick's Day parade

Their ranks were thinner last year, and sometimes their minds wandered then to buddies who were on their way toward an uncertain future on the battlefields of Afghanistan.

Now, a year later and with members of the New York National Guard's Fighting 69th back home from a year's deployment in that Southwest Asia country, the mood is especially celebratory as they prepare to again lead the nation's...

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