Maj. Eric Tisland looks into the eyes of his son, Gabriel Tisland, as his wife and the rest of his children greeted him home to Ft. Carson, Colo., Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. All U.S. troops “will definitely be home for the holidays,” President Barack Obama declared Friday, in his statement that the war in Iraq will be over by year’s end. More than 4,400 members of the military have been killed, and more than 32,000 have been wounded in the war that has stretched more than eight years. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)