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At 3:15 a.m. today Johnny McKeel Sr. received the tele
phone call he had been waiting for for more than 400 days.
The call was from a U.S. State Department official, telling
McKeel his son, Marine Sgt. Johnny McKeel Jr., one of the 52
Americans held hostage in Iran, would be coming home.
After the call, McKeel turned to the 15 reporters, neighbors
and friends gathered in his Baich Springs home and said, “It’s
official.”
From his plumbing supply shop today McKeel said he was
thankful for the return and would go to Washington to meet his
son when he arrived.
“We’re going to be there (Washington) by the time they get
home,” he said.
After 15 months of false hope, McKeel said he would reserve
celebration until Johnny was home.
“We’re just waiting for them to get on the plane (to leave
Tehran),” he said. “Then we’ll be happy. Were relieved up to
a point — 99.9 percent.” McKeel’s sister, Nancy Ward of
Houston, said “things have gone a little too far now for Iran to
back down because if they do, Reagan will be all over them like
a chicken on a June bug. ”
She added, “I feel afraid to get excited. When he gets home
— home means home at mama’s house — then I’ll be there.”
McKeel received his telephone call about the time Mari
anne Stevens, sister of hostage William B. Royer, was in
formed.
“I think I cried,” she said. “I was very happy. There weren’t
too many days (she didn’t think the crisis would be settled) but
there were one or two that I was very fearful.
“You can’t harbor that kind of resentment against a whole
bunch of people (the Iranians) like that. I’m just glad it’s over
for his sake and all of our sakes because it’s been a strain on the
family.”
David Engelmann, a Plano, Texas, newspaper reporter and
brother of hostage Lt. Cmdr. Robert Engelmann, said his
family would go to Washington to welcome his brother.
Engelmann’s parents, Ardo and Miriam Engelmann, con
tinued their policy of not speaking with reporters. On the door
of their Hurst home, near a yellow ribbon, they had placed a
handwritten cardboard sign asking for privacy.
“To all media personnel: For the past 15 months we have
attempted to avoid all publicity in relation to the current
hostage situation by refusing any and all requests for inter
views. We have no intention of abandoning that policy now or
in the forseeable future.
“Accordingly, it is respectfully requested that you honor our
desire for privacy by refraining from any further attempt to
contact us.”
The McKeels kept a Sunday vigil with reporters with the
symbolic yellow ribbon remaining tied to the maple tree in
front of their home. American flags were taped to almost every
window in the house.
“You’ll have to pardon me if I break down when I read this,”
said McKeel’s mother, Wynona, as she began reading a b
from her sqn. Tears welled in her eyes as she read fe
Christmas Eve 1980 letter in which he said, “There’s no#
to worry about me. We are all praying the situation will
soon.”
“All we can do is wait,” Mrs. McKeel said.
McKeel’s father complained the U.S. State Department
not been keeping hostage families informed of the negS
tions.
“That’s our biggest cross,” he said. “Everybody thinly
state department is keeping us informed of the progress, Hi
really aren’t.”
Mrs. Darrel Stevens of Katy, Texas, the sister of ks
William Royer Jr., said, “When they let them fco from lit
then I’ll believe it’s happening. I’ve been warned n
excited about anything until I get a call from Washington !
view all this with guarded optimism. When they lettbi
from Iran, then I’ll believe it’s happening.”
A Dallas housewife, Greta Zentley, said: “My heartisra
beating with the news they will be released. They have In
living in fear every day not knowing what’s going to happesi
them. I hope they come home with a good attitude.
Lorie Harris, also a Dallas housewife, said, “It’s wondei
don’t understand why it took so long. Why couldn’t it b
been done sooner?”
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“He had a cake from Randolph Air
Force Base and one from his nurses,”
said Josh Groce, Prosser’s former
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Groce, who is Prosser’s attorney,
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World War I.
Groce said Prosser was not overly
impressed to learn that he was West
Point’s oldest living graduate. “I told
him about it two weeks ago,” Groce
said. “He didn’t have much reaction,
just took it in his stride. He’s not an
emotional person.”
Prosser was born in New Albany,
Ind., and graduated from West Point
in 1905 with a field artillery commis
sion and was assigned to San Anto
nio, where he stayed until 1910.
Prosser’s outfit fought with the
92nd Division until the Second
Army’s general offensive in 1918.
Prosser transferred into the ex
panding Signal Corps in 1920. After
graduating from the Army War Col
lege, he served on the Chief of Signal
Officers staff and with several units
throughout the United States.
With his promotion to brigadier
general in 1937, Prosser began a
string of combat commands that in
cluded two brigade commands, a di
vision top spot and the command of
the mobile force in Panama, where
he wrote the jungle warfare training
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Camp Crowder, where he organized
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At Camp Crowder, Groce said
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“It was a very technical thing,”
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den to speak the name.”
Groce said Prosser was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal for
inspection tours of signal outfits
around the country.
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