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Mass surrenders began almost with the first breaches of the Iraqi lines Sunday and by Tuesday had reached 30,000; the allied command stopped counting then. By war's end the number had easily passed 100,000. They came out of collapsed bunkers, waving handkerchiefs, underwear, anything that was white. Everyone on the allied side had a favorite surrender story...
From Ralph Lauren's Polo Shop to Nevada Bob's Golf and Tennis, from Dansk Kitchenware to Hanes Underwear, every store that has a factory unleashes its slightly-defective merchandise on Kittery...
...learns to scrounge. Supplies have a way of not keeping pace with the soldiers: the technical term for material with no forwarding address is "frustrated cargo." This makes for frustrated soldiers, who must master the time-honored military art of swapping what they have for what they need: long underwear, cigarettes, air filters, a forklift. The local Saudi merchants are not much help. Soldiers complain that prices double and triple between visits to the small local shops. A pack of Snickers bars has jumped from $6 to $15 -- the tax, say the shopkeepers, for doing business in the line...
...There are people who dress just in a decorated bra and underwear," she says. "The motto is, the more exposure, the more exposure...
...masks other people may have to use to save their lives, sound bites about our divine responsibility for the preservation of world democracy, TV station identification breaks playing "Over There" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and store windows proudly displaying flags, combat fatigues and patriotic T-shirts and underwear...