Thursday, October 4, 2007

NPR story

The Minnesota National Guard's 1st Brigade Combat Team returned from Iraq after 22 months, the longest deployment in history for the Guard. Families left behind struggle to put their lives back together.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14980812&sc=emaf

The link above should take you to the story if you are interested. I can believe these people had to do 22 months of combat. At the end of the story the unit Chaplin had a great quote.

Major Chaplin JOHN MORRIS (Minnesota National Guard 1st Combat Brigade): When people say there's not a draft, that's wrong. I volunteered my family got drafted. The sad reality is that we are crushing families.

1 comment:

allysther said...

Thanks for posting this, I had not heard it and it is a great report.