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...POW: Taken By Surprise
...next morning, Perkins estimates, his unit had killed more than 1,200 attackers and taken the fight out of the rest. At first light, an Iraqi colonel walked up to an American position and surrendered. "He was a pow in the last Gulf War, so he had practice in surrendering when things are going bad," says Captain Cary Adams. The Iraqi colonel said he had only 200 of his 1,200 men left and claimed that originally there had been two other brigades in the town. One moved out during the night toward Baghdad, he said, while the other...
...Iraqi ambush of U.S. supply column last weekend turned Shoshana Johnson into the first American woman POW since a 1994 military rule change that allowed the deployment of women in situations where they could face enemy fire or capture. But Johnson is not the first American servicewoman held by the Saddam?s armed forces. Major Rhonda Cornum, currently studying at the National War College in Washington, was captured by Iraqi forces during the Gulf War. She shared her experience with TIME correspondent Cathy Booth Thomas...
...eight days, she was in Iraqi custody. Although the fear was frequently palpable, she was never tortured and her chief enemy, she says, was boredom. "Being a POW is the rape of your entire life. But what I learned in those Iraqi bunkers and prison cells is that the experience doesn't have to be devastating, that it depends on you," she writes...
...shrugs off the indignities that fell her as a woman POW, including the first embarrassing moment when she had to go to the bathroom but couldn't get her one-piece flight suit off because of her broken arms. "Looking back, it is kinda funny," she says. "I can remember looking ridiculous with my arms hanging out to here. A sense of humor and little denial go a long way in making this a bearable thing...