Chris Ammann/Baltimore Examiner Alaina Dagenais, 3, left, bounces on her 'hippity-hop' during a race of the Pee Wee Preakness at Federal Hill Park on Tuesday, May 16, 2006.
Chris Ammann/Baltimore Examiner Bob Dicks of Buck County, Pa. straightens out the lines of his hot air balloon "Fleck Folly IV" during Preakness Balloon Fest at Oregon Ridge Park in Timonium on Thursday, May 18, 2006.
Nathaniel Green, left, receives a kiss from his wife Beatrice before both are deployed for Iraq with the 58th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Maryland National Guard on Thursday, April 26, 2007 in Pikesville. Chris Ammann/Examiner
