European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Hostages to leave sunday Champagne party thrown for the 52 by Chuck Freadhoff staff writer Germany the 52 former hostages will leave the air Force Hospital Here sunday and return to the a military spokesman said that Tenta Tive plans Are for a 10 the hostages will be flown to the military Academy at West for a private reunion with families and then go to Washington tuesday for a Wel com Home ceremony probably headed by president the six Story Thayer hotel on the acad Emy grounds is to be turned Over to the hostages and their relatives for the run Likely to last at least 36 the 52 a hostages celebrated their Freedom Friday night with bottles of 250 pounds of lobster tails continued on Page i former Iran hostage Donald Hohman gets a hug above left from his brother Lewis at the air Force Hospital Happy aftermath in Bruce German says he never wants to see Iran again unless Hes dropping a authorized unofficial publication for the us armed forces 279 15c Ond Sundog january 1981 if 21855 a hed go Back to Iran but Only on a b52 by Eddie Fleming staff writer Germany sex hostage Bruce German said Friday that the Only Way he would return to Iran is aboard a b52 and another of the 52 freed Barry replied with an emphatic the Best feeling to be free 2 a hostages bitter7 no when asked if he would consider re turning to the nation that held him hostage for 444 related Page German and Rosen were interviewed Friday morning when they ventured out Side the closely guarded air Force Hospital reporters Arent allowed in Side the Hospital of continued on Page i by Chuck Freadhoff staff writer Germany its probably the Best feeling Ive had in my whole to be i dont think ill Toivi been assigned to the 97th general Hospi Tal in Frankfurt before going to Steven a state department administrative officer who also was among the 52 said it feels just i cant describe How great it yet even in the midst of the euphoria of the two have not lost their bitter Ness toward i hate to say in bitter toward All Ira but i have to say that apparently the iranian government was fully committed to keep us in and apparently the majority of the iranian people i do feel a pretty substantial amount of bitterness toward the Lauterbach for Hohman the feeling is now All i want to see is a scorched Earth policy in i want to make it Clear to Iran that they dont have any right to treat people the Way they treated the 1 Learned toward the from one or the that at one time after the raid they thought they should have wiped us and that another reason to main Tain my hate for in not a hateful but Ive Learned from professionals now to do it want always that Way for the medi Cal he went to Iran with an open mind and tried to meet the and learn their he had iranian but that was before the before the Ive done a lot of solitary lots of they said that i argue with and i didst see their i figure i had a legitimate right to argue about anything they but even those not in physical isolation were kept quarantined from the outside their mail was religious continued on Page 2 dear we prayed j for your Safe return Germany were so Happy that the hostages Are wrote the second graders from the american school Here in their letter which dear even though weve never met the letter to the stars and stripes we feel As though we know during your 444 Days in we thought of you often and prayed for your Safe we wanted to be at Rhei main to Welcome but we could we were with you in some of us even got to see you on we decorated our school with posters to remind everyone of your we tied yellow ribbons around the Trees outside of our we love you Welcome
