Four-year-old Mackenize Snyder of Sharon, Pa., giggles as her uncle, …

Photo by William D. Lewis | published: April 24, 2011

Four-year-old Mackenize Snyder of Sharon, Pa., giggles as her uncle, Army Reserve Spec. Douglas Ferguson, tickles her. She is in the arms of her mother, Amanda Snyder, Ferguson’s sister. Mackenize was 2 when her uncle deployed to Afghanistan.