Photo by Lisa Hornak
Chaplain Lt. Col. Ronald Huffman hugs granddaughters Camryn Coffey, 2, left, and Grace Lewton, 2, during yesterday’s ceremony.
In Iraq, they were the ones who tended to soldiers waging another kind of war than the one being fought on the ground.
They were the ones who held the hands of the injured and the dying, the ones other soldiers confided in.
Yesterday, the five members of the 104th Chaplain Detachment returned to Boston to face a new challenge - that of coming home.
“They’ll have to get reacquainted with their families and make the transition back to civilian life after being away for a year,” said Jeff Keane, spokesman for the Army Reserve’s 94th Regional Readiness Command.
At a “welcome home, warrior” ceremony sponsored by the RRC, the five were reunited with their families at the Barnes Building in Boston, with each given a flag in a wooden case, a commemorative coin and a lapel pin as tokens of appreciation for their service.
Lt. Col. Ronald Huffman, Maj. Kimon Nicolalieef, Master Sgt. Douglas Chase and specialists Brian Case and Jennifer Kelly all left home last November and were deployed to Camp Victory in Iraq, where they tended to the spiritual needs of soldiers from the United States and elsewhere, Keane said.
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