Maryland National Guard to honor Pennsylvania state trooper

The Maryland Army National Guard soldiers had been training during the weekend at Ft. Indiantown Gap and were returning home by convoy on Oct. 24 on Interstate 83.

In Shrewsbury, the vehicles — about 30 of them — took Exit 4 off the interstate to reassemble, said convoy participant Sgt. Dennis Thompson.

“It was just an unplanned stop,” he said. “The convoy was getting too spread out,” so they pulled off and parked in the Tom’s convenience store parking lot on Route 851, “to allow the convoy to get together.”

But then they found they couldn’t return to the interstate.

The traffic around the interchange was too congested, there were too many traffic lights, and with the hulking vehicles they were driving, there was a concern they might get separated again.

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