Baraboo Troops Ship Out
They're on their way to Iraq.
I got a few pictures at a little send-off rally yesterday morning - maybe a hundred people gathered around Baraboo's courthouse square to wave goodbye.
Crowd shot.
This woman set herself up away from everybody else so people could see her posters.
The troops were on three buses - you can see a few of them on top of this one, waving to the crowd. The Boo News had a much better picture, but it's not online.
Sorry these aren't better - we could see troops standing up in the buses.
I walked once around the square and didn't see any protesters. Glad for that. We do have a relatively loud anti-war crowd up here, but if they showed at the send-off, they left their signs at home.
Sorry to say I don't know any of these soldiers personally. We'll be praying for them and for their families.
The 125 soldiers from Baraboo and Reedsburg-based Charlie Company C will join the rest of the 2nd Battalion, 128th Infantry today. Including other battalions, 560 soldiers will leave for Camp Shelby. Military officials haven't disclosed their deployment destination for security reasons.
I got a few pictures at a little send-off rally yesterday morning - maybe a hundred people gathered around Baraboo's courthouse square to wave goodbye.
Crowd shot.
This woman set herself up away from everybody else so people could see her posters.
The troops were on three buses - you can see a few of them on top of this one, waving to the crowd. The Boo News had a much better picture, but it's not online.
Sorry these aren't better - we could see troops standing up in the buses.
I walked once around the square and didn't see any protesters. Glad for that. We do have a relatively loud anti-war crowd up here, but if they showed at the send-off, they left their signs at home.
Sorry to say I don't know any of these soldiers personally. We'll be praying for them and for their families.
posted by Lance Burri @ 3:13 PM
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