For the curious...........
Posted on 05/09/2008 1:37:05 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
'Caveman and the Hottie': U.S. Soldier to Tie Knot With Iraqi Translator
Friday , May 09, 2008
AP
LACEY, Wash. — Their first real date lasted only 20 minutes. It ended because darkness was falling, when unimaginable new threats and nightmares could emerge on the streets of Baghdad.
The American soldier and the Iraqi woman were fighting all the odds.
They were in love and wanted to marry.
From 2004 to 2006, the two had carried on a friendship followed by a yearlong courtship conducted over the phone. Then one day after rehearsing in Arabic with an Iraqi friend, he proposed to her, and she accepted.
Yet after that final meeting in early 2006, the soldier was returning home to Washington.
The two vowed to be reunited in defiance of history, religion and danger.
Yet for the next two years, it seemed as though the entire world was against them.
In March 2004, when the newly mobilized Washington National Guard's 81st Brigade arrived in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Lance Caver, a Bradley Fighting Vehicle commander, noticed the young woman at the checkpoint near the Iraqi Convention Center to which he and his men were assigned.
She was wearing brown pants, a pink blouse and a gold chain necklace. She was Asraa Alaibi, then 24, newly graduated with a degree in English from the University of Baghdad.
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Not to rub it in but it’s 85 and sunny here. ;)
Nice story.
Some good news on a 98 and sunny day....
Something wrong with my monitor again...gettin' fuzzy...
May God bless their marriage.
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It's a lovely story, and I wish them a long and happy life together. I'm concerned, though, since I know religion can become much more important to people when they start having children. I hope she will convert to Christianity. If she doesn't, there could be a significant strain on the marriage.
Definitely not guilty! Good for you...she sure looks healthy from here.
Great story!
Haters, please stay away from this thread....
it is important for husband and wife to be equally yoked
God bless them both.
Gee, I think I'll stick with the 50 degrees here.
98, that's 6 degrees more than I've ever seen it here!
Absolutely beautiful story. Welcome to America and may God bless you both.....
What a sweet story. May they be happy forever.
She’s pretty good looking. Good for both of ‘em, I wish them the best of luck.
Exactly. My sister and her husband are not, and though they love each other, it's caused a strain in their marriage since their children were born.
Cute story. Are either FReepers?
“Definitely not guilty! Good for you...she sure looks healthy from here.”
I know its Friday afternoon, but its s little early to break out the beer goggles.
“Beer! It’s not just for breakfast anymore”
I had an interpreter there who had a standing offer of $5,000 to any female soldier who would marry him and take him to the US.
On the other hand, I had another one who went back into a burning HMMWV to help drag out the wounded gunner.
I wish them well.
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