"Soldiers will be welcomed home today
The Massachusetts National Guard will hold a welcome-home ceremony today for about 165 soldiers who have spent the past year in Iraq. Members of the 772d Military Police Company, which was been training Iraqi police, will be honored during a ceremony at Taunton High School. One of the unit’s members, Specialist Matthew Pollini, died in January in a vehicle rollover near Al Kut. The 21-year-old Rockland man was married just weeks before he shipped out (AP)."
Related: Boston Globe Buries the War Dead
And now they are briefs!
Another one not so lucky:
"New Hampshire honors a fallen soldier
Hundreds of people in a New Hampshire town are honoring a local soldier who was killed in Afghanistan. Schoolchildren, Boy Scout troops, and high school athletic teams were among those who stood near the Douglas Dicenzo Memorial Bridge in Plymouth yesterday to pay tribute to Army Specialist Marc Decoteau, 19, whose casket was escorted by State Police and fire trucks in a procession from Concord. Decoteau died Jan. 29. He enlisted after his 2008 graduation from Plymouth Regional High School, where he was remembered as an outstanding student-athlete, helping to win two state football championships. A funeral service is scheduled at the school today (AP)."
Related: The Other Afghan Option
I'd rather come home so we have no more Decoteaus.
