Amazing and disgusting at the same time. Via
The American Street and
Left Edge North, comes this heart warming story of an Iraq veteran's homecoming:
Pcf. Herold Noel, 25, wasn't expecting a parade. But when he and his fellow soldiers from the Army's Expeditionary Unit 37 arrived home from Iraq in Hinesville, Ga. they got what one might call less than a hero's welcome. Waiting for them as they deplaned were local police officers. In their hands were lists of names of soldiers with outstanding warrants, mostly for traffic and parking tickets left unpaid while off fighting the war.
"I had a couple [of unpaid tickets]," Noel recalls. "I told my family to meet me in the parking lot and I went out the side door."
According to Noel, several soldiers were hauled away in cuffs as their families looked on.
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