Eugene Richards

At a motel, Elizabeth Bagley embraces her brother, former Sgt. Jose Pequeno (34) of the New Hampshire National Guard. Jose, who is hospitalized at the West Roxbury VA Medical Center, was brought to the motel for a family visit at Easter. Jose, chief of police of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, lost forty percent of his brain after a grenade exploded in his Humvee while on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq on March 1, 2006.

Mona Parsons and her son, Specialist Jeremy Hagy. Jeremy will be returning to his U.S. Army office job in Iraq after a brief R & R leave. His wife and two children have been living with his mother during his deployment.