Northern Black Hills Troops Home from Iraq

Two of my close friends from high school have grandsons returning home from Iraq.  Today the community had a welcoming parade for them through Belle Fourche, Spearfish, and Sturgis of the Northern Black Hills. These young men and women have been deployed for 474 days.  I know my two friends and their families were somewhere along the parade route.  One young man spent his time at the Baghdad airport as a mechanic and the other was at Fallujah finding and exploding land mines.  We are all thankful they are coming home in one piece.  They have returned just in time to hear the politicians and movie makers castigate their Commander in Chief.