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...right next to Chris [Chiou],” Nguyen said. “He started to come back in his game, and I started to come back in mine. I think we fed off each other as we were coming back...
...plays a very slow, steady pace and I play at a very fast pace, so her style runs counter to mine,” Wilkins said. “She takes you out of your rhythm...
...family took a snapshot of Lee standing proudly under a persimmon tree with his gun. But a week before the war ended, on July 27, 1953, Lee was captured and taken to North Korea, where he spent most of the next 50 years working in a coal mine. In November, Lee managed to escape from North Korea into China, and last month his younger brother flew to the city of Yanji for a reunion. The two siblings barely recognized each other. "It's me, Hyung Doh," the younger brother said, and Lee, now 71, gasped and embraced him. "I escaped...
...minibusiness has sprung up. Brokers living on the Chinese border offer to find POWs and spirit them out-if families pay fees of at least $25,000. But sometimes getting across the border isn't enough. Jeon Yong Il, another South Korean POW who worked in a mine for decades, swam across the Tumen River into China last June along with his North Korean son, daughter-in-law and her mother. But when the group asked for help at the South Korean embassy in Beijing, they were told the Ministry of Defense couldn't find Jeon's name...
Rassmann told his story all over Iowa in the final days: about how Kerry's boat ran into a Viet Cong ambush and hit a mine, knocking Rassmann out of the vessel. Wounded in the blast, Kerry ordered the boat to race out of the cross fire, not knowing Rassmann was overboard. Two hundred yards downriver, when he discovered that the Green Beret was missing, Kerry turned the boat around and raced back to find Rassmann, still in the water, dodging bullets. His arm bleeding, Kerry reached down from the bow of the boat and pulled him in. "John didn...