Going Home

The smart people in the Time.com video department have put together a piece on what some soldiers in the Virginia National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment have to say about leaving Iraq. (President Obama will give a speech from the Oval Office tonight to mark the end of combat missions there.) The soldiers interviewed include a self-described “country boy,” a Sunni born in Indiana and a man unsure how he will transition back to life as a civilian.

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  • pelhamite1

    It is good to see any combat unit return home to safety, but perhaps especially this one. the 116th was the first American unit to land on the beach at Normandy and suffered higher casualties (341 killed) than any other. Their experience was probably closer to the opening of “Saving Private Ryan” than any other, and that part of Virginia sufferd enormously, even in comparison to the rest of the nation.

    And in this time of ignorant prejudice against Islam, there is something wonderful, and even perfectly American, about a Sunni Mulsim serving in a unit that is the historical descendent of the “Stonewall Brigde”.

  • apr2563


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    Here is a video that touches my heart. Children let us know what homecoming means to them.

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