POWs Recount Their Captivity
The seven rescued POWS, five of them cooks, supply clerks and mechanics of the 507th Maintenance Company and two of them Apache pilots, described their ordeal to reporters Sunday:
In their first interviews after being freed, all seven former prisoners described a harrowing journey through the Iraq war -- from their ill-fated missions and capture through an arduous imprisonment where death often seemed around the corner. Speaking to reporters aboard a C-130 Hercules transport plane evacuating them from Iraq, they alternated between tears and smiles and hollow gazes as they told their stories.The article is filled with direct quotes and narratives and well worth reading.
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