Over the past year, our daughter, 1Lt. Kristin Graham, has shared with us through email, phone calls and letters some of the challenges and successes that the men and women of the U.S. Army and the Coalition forces must face on a daily basis.

It is my hope that through these pictures that you will gain a greater understanding for what our men and women in uniform are doing every day to make our world and our lives better.

Here's what our daughter has shared with us:

Here is 1LT Graham with some of the 48 men and women in her command near Balad, Iraq. The 'heavy equipment' of this engineering platoon is front and center. The top picture is Kristin with her squad leaders. Engineers go everywhere heavily armed, and for good reason!	Kristin has told me one of her greatest joys is to see one of 'her people' reenlist. To me, this signifies a job well done. Between 9 and 11 of her men and women have reenlisted while deployed, an astonishing figure to me!
The top picture is of Kristin talking to her platoon leaders. She is on the right.	Here is a demonstration of proper search procedures of vehicle and prisoners of war.
The combat bulldozer has just destroyed all supporting members of the building's frame and the Hyex (above) removes all of the fallen pieces.	1Lt. Graham was involved in the destruction of captured rockets, hellfire missiles and rounds of ammunition all around Iraq.

Take me to Kristin -- Part Deux!!!