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War's end good for area businesses
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Local business leaders appear cautiously optimistic regarding news that the war in Iraq is ending and troops stationed there will be coming home by the end of the year.
A week ago today, President Barrack Obama declared an end to the war in Iraq, and 3rd Infantry Division Commander Maj. Gen. Robert “Abe” Abrams announced that the division’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, which had been slated to redeploy to Iraq next month, would not be going.
 “I think it may help my business,” said Linda Barnes, co-owner of New & Not on Main Street in Hinesville. “I don’t see how it can hurt it.”
Barnes said her family-owned consignment shop has been in business for 33 years and has seen many ups and downs in sales based on deployments by 3rd ID soldiers.
 “A lot of wives tend to go home when their soldier is deployed,” she said. “It’ll be helpful if they’re not deployed so often now.”
Her sentiments were echoed by David Hinze, co-owner of Zum Rosenhof, a German restaurant in downtown Hinesville.
 “It’s going to be nice to see (3rd ID soldiers) not gone so often,” he said. “When the majority of the (3rd Infantry) Division is gone, you can tell it. Business is slow.”
Read more in the Oct. 29 edition of the News.

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