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  SFC PATRICK MCDONALD'S PHOTOS OF HIS SERVICE IN IRAQ 07/2006
 
  • Patrick McDonald-SEC, votes in the Thurston County September 2005 primary election while large busts of Saddam look on prior to being dismantled and sent to various US military bases.
 
  • Patrick McDonald observes the counting of ballots at a the downtown Baghdad Convention Center on the evening of December 15 ? after the Council of Representatives Elections. He was often in civilian clothes while doing his job.
 
  • A group of Iraqi election workers heading to the dangerous Anbar Province to work on the Iraqi Constitutional Referendum that was held on October 15, 2005.
 
  • McDonald and a Kurdish Soldier in northern Iraq who became fast friends. He has relatives in Tennessee and looks forward to the day he can go to America and visit them ? in the meantime he used soldiers like myself to learn about the US and practice his "American."
 
  • McDonald strikes a pose at the parade field.
 
  • An Iraqi child at the local DVD store wanted to play with someone with a ball he just received from an American soldier.
 
  • A sunset photo taken at the Saddam?s "Victory of Iran" parade field in Baghdad. The hands holding the swords were modeled after Saddam. It was constructed five years before the end of the Iranian ? Iraqi war - that ended in a stalemate.