According to the article, she's been married for about a month, and then, a week before Christmas, was called to Iraq.

McKinney, a member of a large, rambunctious Glen Rose, Texas, family, was sent to Iraq a week before Christmas.

To make matters even harder, McKinney had to leave her husband of one month, also a soldier, back at Fort Sill, Okla.

As part of her last-minute scramble for her yearlong deployment, McKinney had to get the dentist to clear a persistent tooth problem for travel.

"So I was in the dentist