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Soldiers from the Army Reserve Center in Orangeburg get set to deploy to Afghanistan

Soldiers from the Army National Guard’s 668 Engineering Company stand in formation outside the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Montebello before a deployment ceremony this morning. Photo by Seth Harrison

The soldiers gathered with family and friends for the send-off ceremony. The soldiers will leave for Afghanistan tomorrow on a 400-day deployment. Look for the story and photos at Lohud.com and in tomorrow’s edition of The Journal News.

Seth Harrison

Seth Harrison has been a staff photographer at The Journal News since 1987. In that time, he has covered 9/11, elections in Israel, national political conventions, several World Series, and all facets of local news. Covering national and international events is exciting, however Harrison gains tremendous satisfaction telling the stories close to home. "The mother who has dedicated her life to helping to find a cure for the rare and fatal disease that afflicts her son, the story of troubled children housed in residential treatment centers, or the scores of young Mormon's who come to this area every year to try to spread their faith, are the types of stories that allow me to step in to the lives of our neighbors and offer a glimpse of lives that, while unfolding right around the corner, are very different from our own." Harrison has a bachelorâ€™s degree in photojournalism from Rochester Institute of Technology. A lower Westchester resident, he was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in Yonkers and Hastings-on-Hudson. He is married with three daughters.