Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House ceremony held only five hours after Goodman landed at Andrews, President Reagan praised the young officer's conduct in captivity, saying he "exemplified qualities of leadership and loyalty." Those traits are deeply ingrained. The son of a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, Goodman was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Later he moved to his father's new station at Portsmouth, N.H., where he pushed himself hard to become an A student and football player in high school. He went to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and later attended Navy flight school in Pensacola...
...high school. The couple and their two daughters, Tina, 7, by Terry's previous marriage, and Morgan, 2, moved to Virginia Beach, Va., two years ago, when Goodman was assigned to Attack Squadron 85 at Oceana Naval Air Station. Last September the squadron was posted to the Mediterranean aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy...
...Goodman can only vaguely recall the Syrian gunfire that downed his A-6 fighter last Dec. 4, killing the pilot, Lieut. Mark Lange, 26, and leaving Goodman a P.O.W. "I remember the plane being jostled," Goodman said, "and instead of looking at the sky, I was looking at the ground." Ejected from the plunging aircraft, he passed out, awakening to the sensation of "ropes so tight my fingers were numb." His knee and shoulder were injured during the mission. Goodman was taken to a six-story military compound in Damascus and locked in a dank basement room, where he endured...
...next thing I was going to read," he said, "was The Right Stuff. " Goodman also watched Syrian television, which to his surprise carried old John Wayne movies and episodes of the television sitcom Gimme a Break. Goodman found his guards' occasional kindness "unnerving," mixed as it was with humiliating, false assurances of imminent release...
...Goodman steeled himself by thinking daily about "the P.O.W. experience that I had been trained to withstand...