Rudy Lirato (right), a U.S. contractor currently working for the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division's Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team, poses for a photo with a U.S. Army Soldier and some children in Mosul, Iraq, in 2004. Lirato, who is a native of Iraq and now resides in Arizona, has worked with coalition forces for three years and said he hopes to help the Iraqi people realize their own dreams of democracy.