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THE BATTALION
5B
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Families and friends of POWs
try to remain optimistic
By Chris Roberts
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EL PASO, Texas (AP) —
Families of American soldiers
missing in Iraq hoped for news
of miraculous rescues as U.S.
forces removed Saddam
Hussein’s regime from its v seat
of power” in Baghdad on
Wednesday.
For some, no news was good
news. For others, the lack of
news extended the already ago
nizing wait.
For Anecita Hudson, a good
dose of motherly intuition
meant no doubts about her son’s
life. Hudson, mother of Army
Spc. Joseph Hudson, 23, of
Alamogordo, N.M., said she
would know if something had
happened to her son, who was
captured in Iraq on March 23.
“They are just saying the
Americans are taking over the
Baghdad, but what I want to
hear, since they are in Baghdad.
I want them to bring the POWs
home,” Hudson said
Wednesday. “I have no doubts
my son is out there and he is
very alive and he is awaiting to
be rescued. If something hap
pens to my son, I will feel it.”
Casper, Wyo., resident
Angela Reiss’s son Marine Sgt.
Brendon Reiss, 23, is listed as
missing. She is concerned that
her son may be among bodies
yet to be identified, but she takes
some comfort from the rescue of
Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who
had been listed as missing but
was plucked from an Iraqi hos
pital on April 1.
“It doesn't sound possible
that Brendon is alive but there’s
always that hope
that he could be a
POW,” Reiss
said. “They did
n’t know at that
point who the
POWs were and
who weren’t.”
Wednesday
was a rough day
for the family of
Army Chief
Warrant Officer 2
Ronald D. Young
Jr., 26, of Lithia
Springs, Ga., a
Fort Hood heli
copter pilot who was captured.
News of bloodstained uniforms
— possibly those of U.S. POWs
— found in a Baghdad prison
was worrisome.
“It was a down day for me,”
said father Ron Young, a
Vietnam veteran, who called his
older son Mark to lift his spirits.
“I feel like the next big thing
on the list has to be the POWS,”
he said. “I don’t think the
regime is completely down ...
but I think it’s just a matter of
time for the POWs to get back.”
Brenda Wilson, the mother of
missing Marine Pfc. Tamario
Burkett, 21, is hopeful that the
latest developments will mean
an end to the fighting and her
heart-wrenching wait.
“I’m just hoping that there’s
an end to the
war and that
they’ll be able
to tell me
something.
Anything is
better than
nothing right
now,” she said
from her
Buffalo, N.Y.,
home. “They
say no news is
good news, but
right now for
me, that’s not
the case.
“How can you have hope
when you have nothing? No
information, period.”
Dave Williams, father of
Army Chief Warrant Officer 2
David S. Williams, 30, of
Orlando, Fla., who was captured
along with Young, said he isn’t
listening to television reports.
“I’ve been positive the whole
way, but you can’t get caught up
in the story until the confirma
tion that they’ve located the
POWs and the POWs are safe,”
Williams said.
“I’m sure that (the Army) is
doing everything in their power
to try to find the POWs just like
they did Jessica,” he said.
Carolyn Hutchings watches
television in the hopes that she
might catch a glimpse of her
son. Marine Pvt. Nolen Ryan
Hutchings, 19, of Boiling
Springs, S.C., who is listed as
missing.
“It’s on 24-7,” said
Hutchings, who could not
bring herself to watch a movie
even at the urging of a family
member. “I can’t get away
from the TV.”
The family of a 22-year-old
Marine from Hutchings’ battal
ion tries to stay busy.
“It’s difficult,” said Paul
Patchem, stepfather of Cpl.
Kemaphoom A. Chanawongse,
from Waterford, Conn. “We try
to deal with the media and try
to get into a routine — get back
to normal. We’ve incorporated
more prayer into our routine.”
In Brownsville, Levi
Anguiano, cousin of missing
Army Sgt. Edward John
Anguiano, said the family was
hopeful that he would be found
or released now that the gov
ernment appears to be in col
lapse. “We hope he’s OK.”
u
I have no doubts
my son is out there
and he is very alive
and he is awaiting to
be rescued.
— Anecita Hudson
Mother of soldier missing
since March 23
NEWS IN BRIEF
Charges dismissed
against Marine
accused of sabotage
Local Iraqis celebrate forces in
Baghdad; others question intentions
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C (AP) -
Charges against one of two
Marines accused of sabotaging
parachutes have been dis-
missed, military officials said
Wednesday.
Lance Cpl. Julian Ramirez, 25,
was cleared of all charges,
including attempted murder,
conspiracy and destruction of
government property, Camp
Lejeune officials said in a news
release.
Recommendations involving
charges against the other
Marine, Lance Cpl. Antoine
Boykins, 21, were still being
reviewed, the news release said.
Three Marines were injured
Sept. 21 when their parachutes
failed to open after a jump from
1,250 feet; each landed with a
reserve chute. Investigators said
13 of the 22 parachutes had
been tampered with.
At a hearing last month, a mil
itary prosecutor said the two
Marines secretly cut suspension
lines to avenge the ill will of
their platoon commander.
But one of Ramirez's attorneys
told the judge that no forensic
evidence presented in the mili
tary hearing — the equivalent of
a civilian grand jury - tied his
client to the crime.
By Anita Chang
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — As'Coalition forces swept into Iraq’s
capital Wednesday, some Iraqis living in Texas
cheered like the jubilant crowds around the town
square, but others agonized over civilian casualties
and said U.S. troops should leave quickly.
Chanting “U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.,” a group of
Kurds in North Dallas clasped hands and danced in a
circle Wednesday evening as they celebrated what
they believe is Saddam Hussein’s fall from power in
Iraq.
“Everyone wants to cheer that Saddam’s out,”
said 8-year-old Warvin Abdullah, one of about 150
Kurds who gathered outside the office of Kurdish
Human Rights Watch, Inc. of Dallas.
Earlier in the day, Khalil Jaloub struggled for the
words to describe his feelings.
“When I heard the hews today and saw the pic
tures, and seeing the people how happy they are, the
feeling I have is hard to describe. It’s elated, I
guess,” said Jaloub, a 37-year-old minister of mis
sions at a Baptist church in Plano. He left Iraq to
attend school in England, and then immigrated to
the United States in 1987.
“The Iraqi people inside Iraq and outside Iraq
have been waiting for the end of the regime since
1968,” he said.
Saddam’s Baath Party overtook the Iraqi govern
ment in a military coup in 1968, and Saddam took
charge of Iraq’s internal security forces.
Many Kurds, an ethnic minority long oppressed
by Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein, were especially
exultant that Baghdad appeared to be falling into
coalition hands.
“It’s my birthday. Saddam is gone, so it’s my
birthday today,” said Zuhair Missouri, a Kurd living
in Dallas.
“As long as I remember, I was less than five
years old, a kid, since then I remember Saddam’s
picture all over, security police all over, the only
time we could feel or breathe liberation was in 1991
with the uprising in the north,” added Zewar
Almissouri, 28, a restaurant manager who came to
the United States about six years ago.
The postwar uprising in 1991 was crushed by
Saddam’s forces. But later — under the protection
of U.S.-led air patrols — the Kurds began to
rebound.
“I could say we could feel like it’s a national cel
ebration or birthday to each Iraqi because we felt
bad for Iraqis back home, but today was a really
great day,” Almissouri said.
Missouri and Almissouri are both affiliated with
the Kurdish Human Rights Watch in Dallas, where
Kurds young and old waved American and Kurdish
flags and proclaimed their gratitude to President
Bush and U.S. and British troops.
But not all Iraqis were happy about the troops’
advancements.
Hadi Jawad, vice president and board member of
the Dallas Peace Center, said he was horrified when
he saw the images of American forces pulling down
the statue of Saddam, not because he supports the
Iraqi leader, but because he objects to the mounting
civilian casualties.
“There’s nobody in the world who protects that
murderous dictator. The question is the means the
U.S. and British have gone to taken to the removal
of that regime,” he said.
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