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...troops amassed in nearby Djibouti might eventually be deployed in Yemen. Saleh's campaign is popular with many Yemenis, but they draw the line at the presence of foreign troops. At the Wadi Dhahr wedding ceremony, Ahmed Saeed, a retired army officer who carried his 8-month-old grandson on his shoulders, was pleased when the police took away the reveler who had opened fire. "We have the greatest President, who wants us to feel safe and secure," he said. And if the Americans land on Yemeni soil to help out? "I will give my grandchild a weapon to kick...
...Centropa researchers. The craggy face of an old rabbi named Abraham Rezmovitz glares out from under a wide-brimmed hat in an account of the family Rezmovitz, who lived in a part of what was then Hungary and is now Romania. "Jewish fanatacism shone in his face," says his grandson Andor. Abraham was known for thumping children with a stick if they failed in their recitations. But he was also fearless: once leaping into a whirlpool on the River Tisza in his flowing black caftan to rescue a drowning child. On another occasion, when a local bailiff came to extract...
Perez's army career wasn't supposed to turn out like this. A child of Texas' Rio Grande Valley and the grandson of four Mexican immigrants, Perez had seen a stint in the Army--safely in the rear--as his ticket to college. When he enlisted in 1991, his father Ramiro had a warning for the recruiter: "If he ends up in the infantry," he said, only half-joking, "I'll break your legs." So Perez became a supply soldier, responsible for making sure the men on the front lines got their beans, bullets and boots...
...cooked their favorite meals, smuggled their farewell letters to sweethearts past military censors, and gave the airmen their final hugs goodbye. Tome, then a middle-aged mother of two girls, "often said she cherished each (pilot) as if he were her own son," says Akihisa Torihama, 42, her grandson and a resident of Chiran...
...news; the following day, Nakajima decided to come to Chiran with his three kids. "My children need to know the importance of peace." This would surely have pleased Tome. "(Before she died,) she was writing to then President George Bush, asking him to end the Gulf War," says her grandson Akihisa. "If people can relate to a woman like Tome Torihama, then there's hope for Japan?and the world...