Dorothy Bonvillain

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“"Wall of Fire"” by Dorothy Bonvillain

Submitted to Contest #42

I’ll never forget the day I stepped off the plane in Saudi Arabia - a young military wife, with two sons in tow, ages 8 & 9. We’d been traveling about 26 hours from Texas (to visit family) to NY; then NY to Saudi Arabia. We were there to accompany our Soldier on a two-year assignment to the Kingdom.  Let me set the stage: It was 1980 in the midst of the Iran Hostage Crisis. Tension dominated world news. Iranians had stormed the American Embassy in Tehran where they held 60 American hostages for 444 days. My only knowledge of th...

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