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Why this book?
Because of Corporal Scan M. Pulliam, a
twenty-two-year-old American marine from Damon,
Texas, who wasn t at his wife s bedside when their first
child was born. Since mid-August, Corporal Pulliam, a
tank gunner, has battled 120-degree temperatures and
a variety of poisonous snakes which inhabit the Saudi
desert. To avoid a confrontation, he has taken to sleep-
ing on top of his tank.
Because of Karin Oliver, age thirty, who has worked
for nearly ten years in the public library in Blooming-
ton, Indiana. A former Navy Seabee, Oliver was in-
formed in mid-August that her reserve unit might well
be called up on twenty-four hours notice for service in
the Persian Gulf. She was told to be reachable by phone,
day or night, and to ensure that her legal affairs were in
order--including her will.
Another reason is Barbara Bodine, an intrepid State
Department foreign service officer who serves as the
number two at at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait. The em-
bassy s skeleton staff refused to leave Kuwait City when
the Iraqis ordered all diplomats out in late August and
then cut off electricity and water to encourage their
departure. With hundreds of Americans in hiding in the
capital or held hostage in Iraq, Bodine and her col-
leagues were intent on staying. They survived from
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