soldier who warned of lack of armor returns home...

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he's safe and unharmed, others not so fortunate...

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www.editorandpublisher.com

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When Staff Sgt. Brad Rogers, 34, came back to his Hebron home after 14 months overseas, things just weren't the same. And then there are the reporters who want the interviews.

"I never wanted this to be a big story," Rogers says, sitting down in a local restaurant to eat the definitive American food -- a cheeseburger.
"I only wanted to do what was best for all of us. And it worked.
Fortunately for all of us, we came back home."

The story begins April 3, 2005. Rogers, and his fellow members of the Kentucky National Guard's 2113th Transportation Company based in Paducah, had been in their mission for only about a month -- running convoys, sometimes hauling troops or equipment or escorting contractors who delivered supplies from city to city.

Rogers, a 16-year veteran of the Kentucky National Guard who served in Operation Desert Storm, said bombs hit other vehicles in his convoy.
"God must've put a bubble around mine," Rogers says.

"Thankfully, I never was hit. But was I scared? Yes."