Family affair: 3 Vt. guardsmen part of surge

[unhappycamper]

Jorge DiNunzio, 24, embraces girlfriend Eva Brammer just before a Vermont National Guard deployment ceremony Jan. 6 at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, Vt. DiNunzio and his two brothers will soon deploy to Afghanistan.


Family affair: 3 Vt. guardsmen part of surge
By Sam Hemingway - Burlington (Vt.) Free Press via Gannett News Service
Posted : Thursday Jan 7, 2010 8:43:23 EST

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. — It’s a big deal for a family to have one of its members march off to war in Afghanistan as part of the largest Vermont National Guard deployment since World War II.

So imagine what Hugo DiNunzio, 51, was going through Wednesday.

He’d watched his youngest son, Spc. Francisco DiNunzio, 21, leave last month for combat training at Camp Atterbury, Ind., prior to going to Afghanistan. Now he was saying goodbye to his other two sons, Spc. Omar DiNunzio, 22, and Pfc. Jorge DiNunzio, 24.

The two sons were among the 100 members of the B Battery 1-101st Field Artillery unit being feted at Wednesday’s farewell ceremony in Essex Junction before going to Indiana for training and, ultimately, to Afghanistan.

Add in two other close relations in the DiNunzio clan also being deployed to Afghanistan, and there might not be a Vermont family with more on the line when the 1,500-member Guard contingent heads into harm’s way in March.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/gns_guard_vermont_brothers_010710/

[Captain Hilts]

1. I'm glad Mullen went to talk to them. VT has done more than its share. nt