Twenty-five members of the New Hampshire Police Association Pipes & Drum Corps perform Amazing Grace to more than 1,000 soldiers, family members and friends during the 94th Military Police Company's homecoming ceremony in Manchester, N.H., Aug. 4, 2004. U.S. Army photo by Linda Jeleniewski
Maj. Gen. Dennis J. Laich, commanding general of the 94th Regional Readiness Command, pins a Purple Heart on the uniform of Sgt. Daniel Hodges during a welcome home celebration for the 94th Military Police Company at the JFK Coliseum in Manchester, N.H., after the unit's return from a deployment in Iraq, Aug. 4, 2004. Also receiving Purple Hearts during the ceremony were Spc. Justin Titcomb, Staff Sgt. Jason L. Dudley, Sgt. Jerome Ciolino Jr., and Spc. Shaun P. Bellao. U.S. Army photo by Linda Jeleniewski
Australia's Natalie Cook (R) encourages team mate Nicole Sanderson during the women's bronze medal match against Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs of the U.S. in the beach volleyball competition at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 24, 2004
It is fascinating to see what is popular from "down under" these days!
An Iraqi youth, viewed through shattered walls, surveys the damage to his hotel room after it came under attack by mortar fire in central Baghdad, August 24, 2004.
The Iraqi Tourism Ministry is engaged upon a new advertising campaign which stresses that all of the hotels rooms are air-conditioned.
U.S. and Iraqi soldiers stand near the wreckage of a destroyed vehicle at the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion in central Baghdad August 24, 2004.
The problem of backed up sewers in Iraq is being dealt with as swiftly as possibly by government officials.
U.S. Army soldiers run while under fire on a patrol in central Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004, a few hundred yards from the Shrine of Imam Ali. U.S. and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf on Tuesday and Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 meters (yards) of the holy city's Imam Ali Shrine compound, where insurgents loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holed up for weeks.
Has anyone else ever noticed that the cameramen never seem to have to run in Iraq?
A U.S. Army soldier patrols next to a store displaying posters of soccer stars in central Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004, a few hundred yards from the Shrine of Imam Ali.
In Iraq, it takes real men with real talent (cuz I can't use the colloquial euphemism here for testicular fortitude) to play real defense!