The Collection Battle Lines: From America's Wars



CPL. BRETT G. COUGHLIN arrived with Delta Company in Saudi Arabia at the port of Al Jubail on September 13, 1990. For the next three months the company trained in the northern desert of Saudi Arabia. By Christmas, its headquarters were near the Al-Wafra oil fields of southern Kuwait. Coughlin wrote this Christmas letter to his girlfriend, Catherine, whom he later married. They live in Maryland with their two children, Kate Vesy Coughlin and Jack Richard Coughlin. Get transcript


Brett Coughlin and family, December 25, 2002
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