Photos: Deployment on the homefront

Spending time with family
Staff officer Freddy Munoz danced with his daughters Emma, 8, left, and Eszie, 6, during the Rum River Service Unit Girls Scouts dance in East Bethel, Minn. April 8, 2011. As Freddy prepared for his second deployment with the National Guard, he and his wife Jenny were also in the process of trying to adopt two girls they had been foster parenting for more than a year.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson

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