The emotions ran deep Saturday, in Picayune, along the side of the road from Interstate 10 to Picayune and in a hospital room in Washington, D.C., as A Company, 890th Engineer Battalion returned home from a year in Iraq.
People welcoming the troops home lined the road from where the convoy came down off I-10 onto Mississippi 603 all the way to the armory, said Butch Weir, editor of the Poplarville Democrat...
"It just got thicker and thicker, the closer you got to Picayune...People pulled over to the side of the road and stopped. Some stopped in the middle of the road. Some of the older people were standing out by the road with their hats over their hearts as the buses passed," Weir said.
Brig. Gen. Hudson Holliday of Poplarville said the 890th had more than met the standards required of it, "they set new standards. ... When America goes to war, it has lots of soldiers to choose from and it always chooses the best."
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