European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse A. A Sli irs find stripes november 2s, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf briefs the press on feb. 27,1991, in Riyadh saudi Arabia wrapping up the coalition s victorious operation desert storm. By Rick Atkinson the first sound they heard fittingly was that familiar Din from the last lost War the deep whomp whomp whomp of helicopter Blades beating northward. Half a dozen armed apaches darting around a larger Black Hawk like courtiers around their Monarch emerged from the Low surf of Oil smoke. Veering wide of the armistice tents on the Northern stretch of runway the procession touched Down in a furious boil of Sand. Soldiers ringing the Airfield Drew weighing in on the Gulf crusade and it commander themselves up and squared their shoulders. A murmur ran among them Schwarzkopf s Here. He peeled the radio Headset from his ears and heaved himself but of the from the Book crusade the untold Story of / persian Gutt War by Rick Atkinson published by Houghton Mitt Lin co., Boston. Copyright � 1993 by Rick Atkinson. Reprinted by permission. Black Hawk s Bay. The dying rotors churned tiny dust devils around his desert boots. From their distance the troops took his measure a great slab of a Man grinning tented in mottled fatigues four Black stars stitched on his Collar. The Bill of a round Campaign Cap shaded his face from the morning Sun. A canteen sloshed on his right hip counterweight Ted by a bolstered pistol on his left. All in All he Cut the very image of an american Mars. In an earlier age the men might have Huz Zahed themselves hoarse at the appearance of their victorious commander. Instead modern decorum continued on Page 4 s
