Welcome Home: Crowd greets soldiers returning from duty
(Winston-Salem Journal) - As Beth Carroll of King looked at her son, Wesley, safely home from the war, tears welled up in her eyes.
“The hardest thing is to send a child to war,” Carroll said. “It rips your heart out.”
Carroll and several hundred family members and friends were at Joel Coliseum yesterday afternoon to officially welcome home the 105th Engineer Group of the N.C. Army National Guard. They returned to Pope Air Force Base on Aug. 30.
As the 440th Army band played “As the Army Goes Rolling Along,” about 50 members of the unit marched in for the ceremony. Applause, cheers and whistles greeted the soldiers.
“The hardest thing is to send a child to war,” Carroll said. “It rips your heart out.”
Carroll and several hundred family members and friends were at Joel Coliseum yesterday afternoon to officially welcome home the 105th Engineer Group of the N.C. Army National Guard. They returned to Pope Air Force Base on Aug. 30.
As the 440th Army band played “As the Army Goes Rolling Along,” about 50 members of the unit marched in for the ceremony. Applause, cheers and whistles greeted the soldiers.
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