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Congrats to Kuwait.. I met once the Kuwait Family on the Corner of RTE 80 in Jahra who were the Initial encounter and 1st to meet Iraqi’s initially Polite Invasion. They came to Front Door Knocked and asked if there was anything they could do to help and when they Came back in 24 they wanted to Occupuy there large house. The One gentlemen Told me that in the Iraqi group were Palestinian friends dressed in Iragi Uniform. he knew these kids since he was 5 Years old. The Family left everything that night by 2 SUV’s across the Desert avoiding Main Rds as they were Barricaded with checkpoints and headed to Saudi Arabia where they stayed until Liberated..

Upon return..they noticed their Palestinion friends were abandoned in Jahra by Iraqis Army who fled back to Basra . The Palestinians traitors were all shot by the returning Jahra Kuwaitis residents as traitors.

I had Expatriate Indian Friends who lived 30 years in Kuwait who were leaving the Catholic Cathedral that invasion day after celebrating Mass. They Immediately were accosted by Iraqi Troops at a Checkpoint in Kuwait City in an area Known as Safat and their Old Mercedes was Comandeerd as Transportation. They Skedaddled within two weeks back to India when Daily Life deteriorated under the Iraqi Occupying regime.

I had been stopped twice during my 2 year stint in Kuwait as a Contractor in Kuwait in 2006 -2008 in a Supermarket. Beautiful perfumed Ladies in Fancy Burkas approached me to Thank me for liberating their Country. I would quickly always remind them I was In Indonesia at the Time and never in the Military. They then would nervously giggle and hug me and begin to tell me of the Rapes and Killing by Iraqi Soldiers to the Females in their Families. Mom Sister Cousin...etc.. They then went off teary eyed. Left me in a real sense of Introspection!

Thank you to Both President Bush’s for your service to our Country and making me Proud to be an American.!

Thank you to all our Military and families for their sacrifice in Making this a special Country in History!

Beautiful perfumed Ladies in Fancy Burkas approached me to Thank me for liberating their Country.

I was in Kuwait in December '96 assisting the Kuwaiti Air Force integrate its air command and control systems. With Christmas coming up my thoughts were with my family and how I wanted to be with them rather than Kuwait. An older Kuwaiti gentleman (60ish?) came up and asked if I was an American (I was in uniform but I don't think he could read English). I answer yes, and he shook my hand and gave me a hug/kiss and said; "For my family, for my country, for me. Thank you for freedom." The best Christmas present I have ever received... ever.

IN 1991, I sat in my vehicle and watched as a Kuwait military member put his 9mm to a Palestinians head for refusing to leave the check point. He pulled the trigger and the pistol misfired, it was no act, the pistol really misfired. I went around the check point I did not want to see what happened after the Kuwaiti cleared his pistol. Heard from the vehicle behind me that the Palestinian decide he should leave the check point. While in "Death Valley" a carload of Palestinians heading to Iraq stopped and started to harass us, a Kuwaiti soldier fired his M-16 and the car left. I spoke to the Kuwaiti he told me how the PLO sided with Hussein how he had had to move from house to house nightly because his Palestinian neighbors turned him in to the Iraqis. Imagine hiding out like that for 6 months knowing torture and death could be just around the corner.