Father, son meet face-to-face in Iraq after 19-year separation

Father, son meet face-to-face in Iraq after 19-year separation
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, November 23, 2007


WASHINGTON — When Jim Meadwell started looking for his son, he didn’t think to look in Iraq.

But that’s where he found him, while he was home in Ohio recovering from an injury sustained in Baghdad. The 50-year-old KBR contractor had worked just a short helicopter ride away for months without knowing his estranged son was serving in the Army.

“I had been looking for 19 years, and it was like someone took a baseball bat and hit me across my chest,” he said in an e-mail from Iraq. “It was a pain of relief.”

For his son, Army Sgt. Christopher Presley, the news was just as surprising. He had hoped to meet his biological father before deploying to Iraq with the 82nd Signal Company, but he never imagined his tour would include the reunion.

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At last the liberal media starts to report something positive in Iraq.