Photos of the author

WIith President Bill Clinton at the White House

With Lebanese President Emile Lahoud

With King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. British PM Tony Blair is behind me.

With Sheikh Hamad of Qatar

With Mrs. Myriam Rajavi, head of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq

SPIE-rigging with US Marines in Beirut. (SPIE stands for Special Patrol Insert-Exert) Next to me is Sgt. David Luttenberger

Me being helped into the Commodore Hotel in Beirut on Aug. 2, 1982 by Vincent Schodolski and Cynthia Nuckolls (who later became my wife). Frank Dougherty is on the left. I had suffered a broken ankle when an Israeli 155mm White Phospherous shell hit the UPI office.

During Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, 1990-91. Behind me are some of the 550 burning oil wells set afire by retreating Iraqi troops on orders os Saddam Hussein.

On the air

The only civilian guest attending a Mess Night dinner as a guest of Col. James Mead, commander of the US contingent in Beirut. (Front to back and L to R): Lebanese Army officer, Gen. ibrahim Tannous, CIC Lebanese Armed Forces; Col. Mead, CO USMC BLT Beirut; Gen. Michel Datin, CO French forces in Lebanon;Italian officer and me.

Desert Storm, Kuwait

Desert Storm, Kuwait

Standing on the stairs in the lobby of the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia, Cyprus during the Turkish invasion of the island, July 1974.during

With US forces in southern Iraq.

Standing next to one of two SUVs I used durung Desert Storm. Note the oil stains on the side of the vehicle. This car was left on the Tarmack at Kuwait Airport as I began my long trek home.

Riding atop an amphibIous landing craft with US Marines in Lebanon, 1983.

SPIE-rigging with US Marines in Beirut. (SPIE stands for Special Patrol Insert-Exert) Next to me is Sgt. David Luttenberger