Specialist Ivan Resto embraces his mother Ermelinda Resto during the sendoff for his military police unit in Reading, Mass., Monday, June 24, 2002. The 972nd Military Police Company, which is comprised of Massachusetts and New Hampshire reserves, is expected to be deployed to Afghanistan for about a year. The unit was also activated shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to patrol airports in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)