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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 2001
Page
16
Ross Perot funded several trips to a Texas hospital to provide prosthetic feet for Young. Special shoe inserts later surpassed the prostheses, letting him walk all day on many days. He notes pain on some mornings but remains determined, reflecting on US and allied actions in the war and Kuwait’s sovereignty restoration.
A compact timeline covers Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War and allied air campaign, the 1991 cease fire, Kurdish safe havens and no fly zones, the 1998 inspections withdrawal, and ensuing air strikes by the United States and Britain.
Iowa City scholars Rex Honey and Norman Luxenburg recall the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Honey favors sanctions over invasion and worries about public casualties and high tech reliance, while Luxenburg calls the war a success for ousting Saddam Hussein though he wishes for a longer fight.
In 1991 Iowa senators Grassley and Hatfield opposed the Persian Gulf War resolution to authorize force against Saddam Hussein, while Nussle and Leach faced tough choices amid widespread district responses. Harkin supported caution and veterans care, and the House passed the resolution 250 to 183.
Thimmesch, a former Marine, spent six years active duty and served three weeks in Kuwait flushing out resistance near burning oil wells. Now a Federal Express courier in Cedar Rapids, he reflects on the war's outcome amid no fly zones and sanctions, keeping letters home and his desert camouflage.
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