1,000 Words: The homecoming

The Chisholm-based Minnesota National Guard 114th Transportation Company came home from nine months in Afghanistan this morning.

Here are some more “words” about it:

Priceless: Joyful families welcome home Minn. National Guard after 9-month deployment. Photos http://t.co/IeFcKehBQN pic.twitter.com/6g6Ayj0AYm

— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) September 16, 2014

Here’s the moment on video, courtesy of KARE 11.

On Saturday, the Guard’s 204th Area Support Medical Company left for a tour in Egypt. It wasn’t quite the same.

About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.