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USS Chafee welcomed home after a 6-month tour of duty

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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Families and friends greeted the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee at Pearl Harbor on Thursday after a six-month independent deployment to the western Pacific. Bill Wells held and kissed his son Andrew, 3 months, for the first time as his wife, Jessica, held their other son, Logan, 3. Wells won a lottery that allowed him to be the first father to get off the ship.
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Nathan Mawer bent down on one knee to propose to Sarah Bankston immediately after he got off the ship. Bankston said yes.