Soldiers officially welcomed home

DANVILLE – When Spc. Givon Hall of the U.S. Army Reserve 332nd Quartermaster Battalion returned from a tour in Iraq in 2004, there was no community parade to celebrate his safe return, no crowd to shake his hand and thank him for his service to his country.

That's because when the Champaign man was deployed in March 2003, he was taken from his home unit in Danville to serve in another from Springfield, Ohio.

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