The last of the U.S. troops from Iraq came home Wednesday Dec. 14^th , a symbolic end to the second longest war in American history.

Lasting more than eight years, the deeply unpopular war has cost the lives of more than 4,400 U.S. soldiers and another 32,000 wounded.

Many people will be traveling home for the holidays and there's no place like home during this time.

There's yoga in that.

Home is anywhere you feel present and loved. Find home in your breath and on your mat and you'll be home.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character” Henry David Thoreau

Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown

Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. ~Author Unknown

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner

I'm on my way

Home sweet home

Tonight, tonight

I'm on my way

Home sweet home Just set me free Home Sweet Home –Motley Crue

Times have changed and times are strange

Here I come but I aint the same

Mama, Im coming home – Ozzy Osborne

Well, I'm going home, back to the place where I belong

And where your love has always been enough for me – Daughtry

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg

Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle, rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be. ~Author Unknown

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will. ~Author Unknown

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart. ~Author Unknown

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

I'll be home for Christmas

You can plan on me – Bing Crosby

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Another aeroplane

Another sunny place

I’m lucky, I know

But I wanna go home

Mmmm, I’ve got to go home – Michael Buble

Ahh, Home

Let me come Home

Home is wherever I’m with you (2x) – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Wish I were with you

I couldn't stay

Every direction

Leads me away

Pray for tomorrow

But for today

All I want is to be home – Foo Fighters

I’m coming home

Tell the World I’m coming home

Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday

Back where I belong, yeah I never felt so strong Diddy

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt

On my way,

Lady