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By The Associated Press
CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA ? It wasn't quite a
storybook engagement celebration but it was definitely
unforgettable: silk flowers, a fake ring and nonalcoholic
champagne served in a tent in the desert.
For Air Force Staff Sgts. Dee Ann Heiderscheit and
Steve Poole, the picnic dinner on an Army cot featuring
cheese and crackers and summer sausage was the
culmination of a five-month romance. It began at a
bus ston at another air hasp, in the Persian flulf
As tents start to fold and Desert Storm shifts to
non-desert homecomings, the more than 500,000 U.S.
troops deployed in the gulf will be closing a chapter
in their personal lives.
For a few like Sgts. Heidersheit and Poole, the
pages are filled with poems, love letters and wedding
plans. Few others, there are memories of lust and sexual
escapades. But for some, there was only emptiness,
heartbreak and even divorce.
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with the completely robed and veiled local womei
But the Persian Gulf War had far more Ame
women in the military, so there were opportunitie
relationships, though not on ships or in combat
where females were banned.
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to go home.
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