European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday saptember16, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a in he Gulf letters from saudi Arabia. By the associated press a mom do you remember when you and i used to. Stop at the Park and play on the Teeter totter a sgt. Christopher Austin writes in his first letter Home from saudi Arabia. A we used to balance ourselves on the his Mother Pam Huffman has read the words scrunched close on sheets from a memo pad a couple dozen times. Her Sisters Mother and teen age daughters All heard excerpts before she tucked the letter away in a plastic Ziploc bag. A a it a the most precious thing in be Ever received a said mrs. Huffman whose Only son is in the army a 82nd airborne div. Like thousands of others Austin is prepared to Battle iraqis Saddam Hussein. And yet All he really wants is to come Home. He a 22, tall slim and Blond. His Blue eyes dance when he smiles which he does a lot. He loves new Castle ind., fresh laundry football and Kim his High school sweetheart and Bride of three months. A i remember when i was in the first Grade mom and i used to walk to school. I saw this Bird every morning and it seemed to follow me All the Way every morning a writes Austin. A i remember Uncle Terry and How he used to play his guitar and sing to me. I remember i used to ride my big wheel around the Block and try to jump the humps and cracks in the memories of Home have helped sustain the More than 100,000 . Servicemen and women in saudia Arabia since Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug. 2. They make the 120-degree desert Days and september sandstorms easier to Bear. A hello sweetheart a writes army pfc. Sean Walters to his wife in Crossville Tenn. A a it a not All that bad yet. But its hot and Boring. And the Only thing you see Are tents for As Long As you can Mai Walters who left Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, is lonely but stoic in her Young husbands absence. She Waits and writes to him then Waits some More before finally receiving his first letters. A two in one Day a she yelped after swinging shut her curbside Mailbox. A a it a 5 of clock in the evening Here. That would make it 9 of clock in the morning there. I miss you very much. A writes Walters a 25-year-old Minnesota native. A i hate being away from you but its out of my soldiers stationed in the Middle East done to have much if any Access to telephones. So they and relatives Back Home revert to that wonderful old Dinosaur the letter. Even if written in Chicken scratch on dog eared paper through the mail come bits and pieces of life sometimes lost in Telephone Calls. There is time for reflection time to scribble things in the margin. A Mike Tony and i have been spending As much time together As we can a sgt. Gary Bruce Goodwin assured his mom. He and his two Brothers Are also writing Homes amps Vince Crawley on his second Day in saudi Arabia airman 1st class John Lasswell of Phoenix ariz., pens a letter to his wife to let her know he arrived safely. The 19-year-old Cook from Luke fab in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale was staying in a hangar with other new arrivals while awaiting Transfer to his desert base. Deployed with the fort Bragg 82nd airborne. A currently Mike is suffering from a severe Case of diarrhoea. Everybody Here is getting it. I had mine last week for five Days and believe me it was awful a writes Gary 27, the Middle son. A hello from saudi Arabia a writes Jim Bell a sober 23-year-old who works in Marine intelligence. A a it is really desolate. Nothing but Miles and Miles of Sand his father architect Robert Bell pauses after Reading the letter again. A a in be been thinking Over the last few weeks about what my position is on this a said the Oak Park 111., father of six. A my position is we should get out. I remember the Vietnam his son who was 8 years old when Saigon fell is of rave about his commitment to the military. But Cleary too he is anxious about the risks of War. A it is difficult to say when ill get Back to the states a writes Jim who d planned to take accounting courses this fall at the University of Southern California. A i wish it were tomorrow. But it looks pretty even army pfc. Wade Merritt the Tennessee Soldier whose letter president Bush held up before the nation As an Emblem of patriotism has his fears. A was much As i love my Job i done to believe in War or the unnecessary acts of violence against fellow human beings but it is my Job a he wrote in a passage the president did not include in his televised address. A when i made a decision to make the army my career i knew that this Day would come a he wrote. A but i was hoping it a yes in a a Little scared a writes mrs. Huffman a son Christopher. A Check up on Kim for me. 1 hated leaving her in the night like that. It was 2 . And she was real shaky you know a just help her out and Tell her that 1 love her because i really miss her mom.�?�. Soldiers in Gulf get free mail service Washington a amps a the defense department has finalized an agreement with the . Postal service to give free mail privileges to service members deployed in the persian Gulf for operation desert shield officials said Friday. Effective immediately the privileges have been granted to personnel in saudi Arabia the United Arab emirates Oman Bahrain and adjacent Waters officials said. The free mail is limited to personal correspondence including letter mail postcards and audiotape messages sent from deployed troops to any location in the United states its territories and possessions or any Apo or Fpo address worldwide. Legislation to allow free mailing privileges for military personnel is expected to be approved by Congress within a few weeks. In the interim the postal service has agreed to fund the free mail authorization out of its own is another Hitler psychologist says by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy a dictators like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler Are scared Little boys who need to make up for the attention their parents denied them a clinical psychologist says. A we have to recognize that people always need to look for a Scapegoat to cover up for their inadequacies a said or. Edith Eger who recently presented a we Klong series of seminars about survival and growth to the american Community in Naples. A Hitler was Ai beaten child. Supposedly he could never get any love from his dad and in a very unfortunate Way he took it out on the jewish Saddam was orphaned at the age of 9 months and raised by an Uncle who was an army officer according to a recent time Magazine report. A a that a what children often do when they done to get love and affection during their childhood. In some Way they get even if they ruin their own lives a she said. A i believe Saddam is a Eger a hungarian born jewish woman who is now a . Citizen understands Well the horrors of dictatorships. During world War ii the nazis imprisoned her in their death Camp at Auschwitz Poland where 2.5 million people died during the holocaust. A i was 16 years old and i was a Ballerina a Eger told one of her seminar groups. A when we arrived at the concentration Camp a Man by the name of or. Meng ele stood at the end of the or. Joseph Mengele known As the Angel of death performed a variety of usually fatal experiments on Auschwitz prisoners. He also helped select which prisoners would live after their arrival at the Camp and which ones would go immediately to the Gas Chambers. A the told my Mother to go to the left and my sister and i to the right a Eger said. A i will never understand How the very Man who sent my parents to the Gas chamber came after me and said a Little girl your Mother is going to take a a that night Mengele came to Eger a Barracks wanting to be entertained. A was i danced for him i could not change what was outside. The Gas chamber was right there. Fire was coming out of the Chimney. I guessed that my parents were dead and were burning there. A i closed my eyes and i imagined that i was far away from Auschwitz the music was Tchaikovsky and i was dancing Romeo and Juliet in the Budapest opera after a year in the death Camp Eger was rescued by an american Soldier in May 1945. He found her in a pile of corpses. She was barely alive. A the cared enough to look through the dead bodies a said Eger who is an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Texas tech medical school in Elpaso. A a that a Why in a so committed to you and the military and know Why you Wear the uniform. I know that my children and grandchildren wont have to experience what i
