PHILADELPHIA A National Guard unit from Philadelphia is back home from a month-long hurricane relief mission in Louisiana.
The unit arrived by bus this morning at the armory in Northeast Philadelphia.
Members of the 56th Stryker Brigade were happy to be home, but also were happy to have helped some desperate fellow Americans.
Captain John Cannon says the unit set up distribution points in various towns around New Orleans. Each day they handed out meals ready-to-eat, ice, and water, infant care products, baby food, diapers, formula and "things of that nature." [...]
