Lt. Col. Brian Champagne and the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery Regiment hasn't had a place to call home in five years.
The battalion deployed from New Orleans for a yearlong tour in Iraq in 2004, and when Hurricane Katrina slammed the region on Aug. 29, 2005, its soldiers in Baghdad watched live TV reports of the levee breaches that flooded the 9th Ward.
Story by Times Picayune by Paul Purpura
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