joins us live. how are families planning to celebrate these soldiers when they come home? reporter: well, you know, i ve been to a lot of mill bases and seen a lot of very tearful departures as the troops have gone off. perhaps the most joyful words you could ever hear on a military base is they re coming home. that s exactly what they ve heard here at ft. bliss. rumors have been circulating here for some time. not long after the troops here deployed which would have been back in july and august. all that was made official yesterday when w the announcement of president obama. that means the 3,500 or so troops that are in iraq for the first armor division will all be coming home as of december 31st. i was talking with denise young. she got the news with other spouses. and even though it s her husband s second deployment, she said that this goodbye was actually harder than the first. listen to what she had to say. it s always a worry. any time he s gone, whether it is at a