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...week after Maupin disappeared, he surfaced on a video shown on al-Jazeera, the Qatari satellite channel. It showed him alive, surrounded by five gunmen masked in kaffiyehs. "My name is Keith Matthew Maupin," he said into the camera. "I am a soldier from the 1st Division." Wearing his uniform and boonie hat, Maupin appeared unharmed but dazed. "He didn't look hurt, but he was nibbling a little on his lip, which I've never seen him do before," Carolyn remembers. "I was impressed that the captors didn't have their guns pointing at him." They said...
Maupin's parents studied still photographs the Army made off the video but elected not to watch the tape itself. The clearest photo "showed a jawline, but it was really fuzzy," Keith says. "Since I've seen that video, I've looked at a lot of jaws, and there's a lot out there that look like Matt's." When the Army told Carolyn that her son might be dead, "I wasn't crying like a mother should be crying," she says. "I had to make myself cry because inside I didn't feel like it was Matt." After further...
...FLAGS SO HIGH. Overwhelmingly conservative and religious, the county's 186,000 residents, most of them white, tend to believe what their President tells them. They agree with him that the Iraq war had to be fought and has to be won. "I think we need to be there," Keith says. Maupin's capture hasn't blunted the county's support for President Bush: he took 71% of the vote in November, up four points from his 2000 showing. Of course, not everyone salutes the war. "The whole community is aching over this," says Don Rucknagel, a retired University...
...candy and cookies, coffee and hot chocolate, games, toothbrushes, underwear and toiletries, to U.S. troops, largely in Iraq. Each box also contains a plastic bag with 10 small pin-on badges containing a photo of Maupin and a slip of paper: "These are pictures of our captured soldier Spc. Keith 'Matt' Maupin," it says. "Please help us find him ... The Maupin Family...
...center's walls are filled with posters and T shirts bearing Maupin's picture. While some parents might not want their lost child staring at them during most of their waking hours, Keith says it soothes him. "Matt is close when I'm here," he says, "because he's everywhere." Keith, who gave up his construction job in July, relies on relatives for his minimal needs. Working full time at the center has given him a mission. It is tough being the father of the nation's only missing soldier, he says. "You don't know what the military...