Faces of valor

As Ted Levitt walks around the car in his garage, he can point to each face airbrushed on it and tell a story.

He recalls the shock he experienced after seeing Capt. D.J. Skelton for the first time after he was seriously injured by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq.

"I didn't even recognize him," Mr. Levitt said.

Capt. Skelton's airbrushed face has one eye closed - almost as if winking - because when the photo the artist used to paint the picture on Mr. Levitt's classic 1931 Buick was taken, his left eye was nothing but a series of stitches.

Capt. Skelton's face joins 42 others airbrushed...