A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
The most powerful image from the slideshow was the one of his friends crying as he left for the first time, realizing just how real it was. 
B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.

Set #1 At home in Denver - Tell me which image #s from image #1 to image #??
1-7
Set #2 At Basic Training - tell me which image #s from image #?? to image #??
8-29
Set #3 In Iraq - tell me which image #'s from image #?? to image #??
50-70
Set #4 Back in Denver - tell me which image #s from image#?? to image #??
71-82
Which set of images was the most powerful? Why?
The pictures of Ian in Iraq were the most powerful to me. He was breaking and falling a part, yet he was suppose to be strong and put things back together. 
C. How do the images work together to tell a story?

3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the Denver Post

A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?
Present Tense
For those of you who have forgotten your verb tenses see the example below.

Present Tense: John jumps down the stairs.
Past Tense: John jumped down the stairs.

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
The captains describe what exactly is going on, and it kind of guides how you are suppose to feel, and just how bad the situation is. 
4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING

A. Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.

Ian and his friends hold each other as Ian returns home for a few days, a rare occasion. His friends are still dealing with the realness of it all, Ian risking his life everyday in Iraq for his country…and they wish he would just stay with them here at home, in Denver. 

Ian walks alone to his new army camp base, heaving a long his heavy bags and looking forward, only forward. If he looks back on the hardships he has faced, and the people he has left behind, walking to his new army camp might be the hardest part of this all. 

Ian is not familiar with his surrounding, and his squad is gong over procedures to reassure they know what they are getting themselves into. Ian is thinking about his training, his family, and his country which he is here for. He is ready.