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'I'm an American Soldier, Too': Central Command Releases Details of POW's RescueBy Nicole Winfield Associated Press WriterPublished: Apr 5, 2003 CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - "Jessica Lynch," a U.S. soldier called out. "We are United States soldiers, and we're here to protect you and take you home." On her hospital bed, Pfc. Jessica Lynch peered out from the sheet with which she'd been covering her head in fear. "I'm an American soldier, too," she replied. U.S. Central Command on Saturday released the dramatic details of Lynch's rescue, as the 19-year-old supply clerk, now safely at a U.S. military hospital...

Some Voices From the War on Saturday .c The Associated Press Some voices Saturday from the war on Iraq: ``I'm an American soldier, too,'' Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, responding to U.S. special forces who stormed an Iraqi hospital to rescue the POW. ``Either he's alive, and giving really bad direction to his armed forces, or he's dead and they're making things up as they go.'' - Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi military campaign. ``We were able to chop off their rotten heads.'' - an Iraqi...

Over there: Capt. Naomi Horowitz Griffin Saturday, April 05, 2003 Capt. Naomi Horowitz Griffin Age: 28 Hometown: Madison and Chatham Township Branch: Army, 4th Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division Location: Somewhere near Baghdad, Iraq At age 2, Naomi Horowitz Griffin would toddle around her father's Madison pediatric office and instruct his patients with authority. At age 5, she was quieting the cries of Alex Horowitz's littlest clients with a mother's ease and expertise. She was different than other kids, said her mother, Madeline Horowitz of Livingston. "She just seemed like an adult. She was never like a little child. She...

FORT HOOD, Texas -- Like many soldiers here preparing to ship off to war, Yusef Al-Ghamdi spends a lot of time thinking about his parents. But he isn't worrying about how they would react if he were injured or killed. He's worrying about how they'd react to his serving in the Army in the first place. A tank driver for the 166th Armor Battalion here, Mr. Al-Ghamdi is well liked by his officers and fellow enlisted men. But he's also a devout Muslim from a prominent Saudi Arabian family, so nothing about his Army stint can be described as simple....

(The Average Military Man] The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either. He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities,...

They left small towns and inner cities, looking for a way out and up, or fled the anonymity of the suburbs, hoping to find themselves. They joined the all-volunteer military, gaining a free education or a marketable skill or just the discipline they knew they would need to get through life. As the United States engages in its first major land war in a decade, the soldiers, sailors, pilots and others who are risking, and now giving, their lives in Iraq represent a slice of a broad swath of American society — but by no means all of it. Of...

U.S. Soldier's Job a Thankless One These days it is rare to hear a positive word about America - and especially about its soldiers. More often than not, America is condemned as an "arrogant" nation and its soldiers written off as uneducated rednecks or war-hungry simpletons. The U.S. soldier, it seems, is not worthy of any praise or respect. Almost unheard of is the person who has approached an American soldier and said one simple thing: Thank you. That's right, "Thank you." All around the world American servicemen and women have defended the nations of their allies and put their...