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BY MICHAEL POUNDMPOUND@TIMESONLINE.COM

BEAVER — Lamb, a decade-old sheep who was part of the Nativity display put on Sunday at the Beaver County Courthouse, didn’t seem to mind that the reli-gious display was organized by a tea party group.

Not many others seemed to care as well.

For about two hours Sunday afternoon, mem-bers of the Steel Valley Patriots group set up in front of the courthouse with members portraying the birth of Jesus, com-plete with Lamb, a donkey, a goat, a llama and an al-paca. The display, which was approved — but not endorsed — by the Beaver County commissioners, at-tracted a steady crowd all afternoon; it did not attract much dissent.

“There really has been just one person here all afternoon,” said organizer Cindy Frey. “We certainly

BY REBECCA SANTANAASSOCIATED PRESS

AT THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER — Outside it was pitch dark. The six American soldiers couldn’t see much of the desert landscape stream-ing by outside the small windows of their armored vehicle. They were hushed and exhausted from an all-night drive — part of the last convoy of U.S. troops to leave Iraq during the fi nal moment of a nearly nine-year war.

As dawn broke Sunday, a small cluster of Iraqi sol-diers along the highway waved goodbye to the de-parting American troops.

“My heart goes out to the Iraqis,” said Warrant Offi cer John Jewell. “The innocent always pay the bill.”

When they fi nally crossed the sand berm that sepa-rates Iraq from Kuwait, illu-minated by fl oodlights and crisscrossed with barbed wire, the mood inside Jewell’s vehicle was sub-dued. No cheers. No hugs. Mostly just relief.

His comrade, Sgt. Ashley Vorhees, mustered a bit more excitement.

“I’m out of Iraq,” she said. “It’s all smooth sailing from here.”

The fi nal withdrawal was the starkest of contrasts to the start of the war, which began before dawn on March 20, 2003. That morn-ing, an airstrike in southern Baghdad, where Saddam Hussein was believed to be hiding, marked the opening shot of the famed “shock and awe” bombardment. U.S. and allied ground forces then stormed from Kuwait toward the capital, hurtling north across southern Iraq’s featureless deserts.

The last convoy of heavily armored personnel carri-ers, known as MRAPS, left the staging base at Camp Adder in southern Iraq in Sunday’s early hours. They slipped out under cover of darkness and strict secrecy to prevent any fi nal attacks. The 500 soldiers didn’t even tell their Iraqi comrades on

WE’RE OUTAs last American troops exit, war that began with ‘shock and awe’ comes to a subdued end

Goodto go?Good question. A banged-up Roethlisberger may or may not be under center in tonight’s Steelers game in San Francisco.

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Display attracts a crowd, little commotion

Photo by The Times’ Lucy Schaly

A group called the Steel Valley Patriots hosted a live Nativity in front of the Beaver County Courthouse in Beaver for two hours Sunday afternoon. Two girls giggle as they look over at an alpaca, owned by the Berg family from New Sewickley Township.

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