Spec. Jerry Qualley, of the North Dakota Army National Guard, hands out coloring book pages to students in Kosovo.
Spec. Jerry Qualley, of the North Dakota Army National Guard, hands out coloring book pages to students in a schoolhouse in Sodovina e Jerlive, a small Albanian village near Vitina, Kosovo, on May 19, 2000. Qualley and his fellow soldiers from Headquarters Support Company, 142nd Engineer Battalion, North Dakota Army National Guard, are delivering boxes of clothing and school supplies donated to the kids in this small village by the soldiers' families and churches back home. Soldiers of the 142nd are deployed to Kosovo, as part of KFOR. KFOR is the NATO-led, international military force in Kosovo on the peacekeeping mission known as Operation Joint Guardian.