Emily Yates has been the focus of a series of stories in Bay Area newspapers and on the American Homecomings website, www.americanhomecomings.com. Here is more about her:

  • Born: Sept. 13, 1982

  • Hometown: Syracuse, N.Y.

  • Family: Husband is Erik Yates (married September 2010)

  • Enlisted in Army: December 2001

  • Rank: Specialist (public affairs)

  • Division: 3rd Infantry

  • First deployment to Iraq: June 2005 to January 2006

  • Second deployment to Iraq: March 2007 to May 2008

  • Discharged: June 2008

  • Current residence: Oakland

  • College: UC Berkeley

  • Major: Near Eastern Studies

  • Set to graduate: May 2013

  • Miscellany: Performs the ukulele and has released an album, "I've Got Your Folk Songs Right Here"; has a tattoo on her neck reading, "All art is quite useless" (from the preface of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray").


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