CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar -- U.S. Marines have found seven missing U.S. troops on the road between Baghdad and Tikrit, Gen. Tommy Franks said Sunday.The father and mother of Lithia Springs prisoner of war Ronald D. Young Sr. told CNN at 9:30 a.m. today that they recognize their son on a video of the rescued servicemen. "I'm ecstatic," Ron Young Sr. said.
An Iraqi tipped off the Marines who were near Samarra and were closing in on Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, that they would shortly "come in contact with a number of Americans," Franks told Fox News.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," said two of the Americans have gunshot wounds.
The families of the seven are being notified, Rumsfeld said.
The phone at the Youngs' Lithia Springs home rang many times after the news broke about 6:45 a.m. but mostly it was news media.
News reports initially said there were seven armed forces members recovered, then the number dropped to six.
"At first my husband was bouncing off the walls because [the initial report] said all seven all of them," said Kaye Young.