Mother of POW recognizes son on TV

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[proust1]

LOCAL NEWS NEWSCHANNEL 9

Fort Bliss soldiers among those captured by Iraq An estimated ten soldiers from Fort Bliss are among those believed to be captured by Iraqi forces Sunday.

Sunday, March 23, 2003 -- Fort Bliss officials confirmed that ten soldiers with the 507th Maintenance Company were involved in an incident while engaged in manuevers with the 3rd Infantry Division.

The names of the soldiers are not being released until the military talks to the families. The status of the soldiers is unknown at this time.

Fort Bliss Chief of Staff Col. Ben Hobson will speak at a press conference at 4 p.m. Sunday. NewsChannel 9 will carry the press conference live.

The Associated Press is reporting that an Alamogordo woman says her son is one of the Fort Bliss soldiers who was taken prisoner in Iraq. That from the El Paso Times today.

Anacita Hudson says she saw footage of the prisoners of war on a Filipino television channel she subscribes to.

U-S military officials have not released the identities of any of the soldiers who Iraqi television reported were captured or killed in an ambush near Nasiriyah.

But one of the soldiers interviewed on Iraqi T-V identified himself as Joseph Hudson.

Anacita Hudson says her son appeared uninjured, but other soldiers in the video appeared to be hurt. Joseph Hudson graduated in 1998 from Alamogordo High School.

Anacita and Joseph moved to the city after his father -- an Air Force retiree -- was killed in a Florida motorcycle accident in 1991.

The family had lived in Alamogordo previously when her husband was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base.

The footage to which Mrs. Hudson was referring is from Arab television station Al-Jazeera has aired footage of interviews with what it says are captured American prisoners.

The station says the prisoners were captured around Nasiriyah, where there have been reports of heavy fighting.

In the interviews, two of the prisoners identified their unit only as the 507th Maintenance. There is a 507th in both the Army and the Air Force.

One of the Americans said he was from Kansas and that "I come to shoot only if I am shot at." Another prisoner, who said he was from El Paso, Texas, said only that "I follow orders."

One soldier was shown lying on his back on a bed, with injuries to both arms and hands, and marks on his forehead. Another soldier, who said he was from Medina, Texas, was lifted from a blanket on the floor to be interviewed.

Reacting to the video, which was shown during an appearance on C-B-S' "Face the Nation," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it's a violation of the Geneva Convention to photograph and humiliate captured troops.

U-S Central Command had no comment.

[EternalVigilance]

Praying for these families and their loved ones.

[saigon]

Pray for their families.

[xJones]

Well, let's just get some of those "human shields" in there. Oh, forget that, they hate Americans, they'd probably spit tofu on the American prisoners in between kissing Iraqi rears.

"Americans bad, the torturing Iraqis good" grunt, grunt.

George Orwell (Malcolm Muggeridge) would have recognized all this for what it is.

[demnomo]

Yeah, and we will not hear even a peep from the Red Cross or Geneva Convention officials regarding this outrage.

The ACLU and Jesse Jackson will peep up loudly, however, to offer aid and comfort to the Iraqi POWs and the Muslim marine who killed and maimed his fellow marines. That we can be sure of.

[realpatriot]

Please pardon my ignorance, who is Malcolm Muggeridge?

[Trust but Verify]

Is it clear yet whether these are active duty or reservists? They look pretty harmless to me, like they were maybe recently plucked from the civilian ranks.

[BossLady]

Prayers for Mrs. Hudson her family and the families all of POWs and those who gave their lives for our country!!!!

[BlackBirdII]

I have a comment, and it's tears, STAY strong!

[piasa]

I wish they wouldn't give so much info about these people's families. SOB's like the Baathists have been known to use such info to cause a lot of misery to captives and even to their families far away.

An article contrasting Hudson with someone else in the news: Dignity and Deadly Betrayal, the Tale of Two Soldiers

Let's win this thing and don't let the appeasers show their faces without shame.

[tuckrdout]

I abhor anyone, anywhere who exploits these photographs. Our children should not be used as propaganda! Anyone who callously posts the photos of tortured GI's without the expressed permission of their relatives is a monster.

These servicemen deserve some human dignity! They did not recieve it from the enemy, we expect them to get it from the people at home! Why would the rest of the GI's serving over in this conflict want to continue to protect a bunch of people in the USA who will get some kind of rise out of seeing their bodies after they are dead?!

PLEASE, please, as a family member to the other members of my American family, please protest all images of the corpses of service men!

This poor woman....

[Main Street]

How very sad for this poor mother to see this.

My dad told me when he was a boy, just after the First World War, the Silent Movie theaters here in the U.S. would show incredibly violent, detailed, and graphic footage of out troops engaged in combat, and in hand to hand fighting. Well, one day, the footage showed a close up of the face of an American Soldier lying in a trench, dying, gasping for his last breaths of air. And it just so happened his mother was in the theater and watch with horror as her son died on the large silver screen. She stood up and started screaming hysterically. After the news of this got out, the war documentaries where all edited, so that this would never happen again.

[FITZ]

I can't imagine the worry and grief this mother must be going through. I pray God comforts her.

[demnomo]

I take back part of my post #5. There is a thread that states the Red Cross has complained.

Still waiting on the ACLU and Jesse Jackson.

[HitmanLV]

I don't like the pics either, but they are news, no doubt.

[wimpycat]

To be fair, the International Red Cross did issue a statement regarding the treatment of POWs under the Geneva Convention. I can't remember if I saw it on the internet or on a crawler across the bottom of the screen on TV, but they did comment on it.

[OneVike]

God bless this woman, to lose your husband and then have your son become a POW.
God please give her grace?

[wku man]

I've heard the 507th is National Guard.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[proust1]

I agree.

[demnomo]

Looks like we posted at the same time. I must admit that I am shocked. Did the Red Cross complain about the evil treatment of the Iraqi POWs taken by the Coalition Forces? The only photos, video and interviews of the Iraqi POWs were voluntary and done on the spot because the poor Iraqis surrendered to the journalists, first!