National Guard Homecoming

Welcome Home Daddy: Garrett Seibert, 3, of Florence, Ky., sits on his dad, Spc. James Seibert's lap during the welcome home ceremony for the soldiers of the Carrollton based Kentucky Army National Guard Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery unit in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday, March 6. (©Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)

Five year old Gunner Fields sits wrapped up from the cold and content on his father, Staff Sgt. Jason fields' lap on the first day the two had seen each other since the deployment of the Carrollton based Kentucky Army National Guard Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery unit. (©Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)

Welcome Home Son: SSG Rob Proctor of the Carrollton based Kentucky Army National Guard Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery unit hugs his mother, Donna, and looks forward for his wife Sheri as he and his fellow soldiers were welcomed home in Louisville on Thursday, March 6. The 138th was deployed to Afghanistan since last year. Proctor, who now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in Trimble County, Ky. (©Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)