Iranian Hostage: A Personal Diary of 444 Days in Captivity PDF
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Iranian ^7 ll^STAOl A Personal Diary OF 444 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY... By ROCKY SICKMANN " June 29. 1980 Day 239 ''Earlier this morning, midnight to he exact, a very touching thing happened. ..From one of the cells in the hallway we could hear a couple of men singing ^'Happy Birthday" to someone back in the States. It musfve been one of the hostage's wife or daughter. It really struck all of us. It's a shame that we're being kept from our families like this, and knowing these people don't under- stand... tonight when I heard that birthday song there wasn't any hap- piness or life in it. Although they . were trying, it was really sad. . On November 4, 1979, the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, fell to militant Iranian students protesting the arrival in the U.S. of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahla\i. Fifty-two Americans, Rock>' Sickmann among them, were held prisoner in Iran for the full length of that international outrage—444 days. Continued on inside back Qap. Co\-er photos b> Paul Ockrassa I -JyJ'* mJ.J^\j:y£.Ht Sic Sickmann, Rocky RDMDOD 135M3 Iranian hostag? MflY 2 1 196^ JUNiJjaSZL '^''"^ 5-B N "«ii^ fJ^ i^ •*^^ ""''TTa' \ MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER PUBLIC LIBRARY BROOMFIELD, COLORADO 'MK^-^ Iranian II0STA6K A Personal Diary OF 444 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY... by Rocky Sickmann Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/iranianhostagepeOOsick Iranian IlOSTAGli: A Personal Diary OF 444 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY... by Rocky Sickmann With a Prologue by the Editor, Erin Leslie Antrim Introduction by Mike Printz CRAWFORD PRESS A divison of The American Companies, Inc. Topelca, Kansas 1962 Copyright © 1982 by Rocky Sickmann All rights resened. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in an\' form without permission. !LC':rc! -5 -^ 7 3 JL 3 -O Library of Congress Catalog CaroNumber: 82-71537 I. S.B.N. 0-88103-000-7 Published b\- Cra\%ford Press A di\Tsion of The American Companies, Inc. Printed in the United States of America First Edition Dedication To my family Mr. & Mrs. Virgil Sickmann, Gene, Judy, Debbie, and Kurt And to my wife Jill Renee 'The love and loyalty you instill Fills my heart my darling Jill The memories we shared together Mine to cherish forever and ever If I should survive this strife Would you consent to be my wife. from a poem written in captivity MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER > PUBLIC LIBRARY BROOMFIELD, COLCHADO
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