Being greeted by President Bill Clinton at the White House.

being beaten up by Lebanese gendarmes during a student demo.

South Lebanon, 1982

SPIE-rigging with US Marines in Beirut. (SPIE stands for Special Patrol Insert-Exert) Next to me is Sgt. David Luttenberger

With Lebanese President Emile Lahoud

With Mrs. Myriam Rajavi, head of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq

With King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. British PM Tony Blair is behind me.

Desert storm

Desert Storm, Kuwait

Riding atop a Marine Amtrak on the way to rescue villagers trapped in the worst snow storm in memory.

On Fox News (one of the rare times).

Desert Storm — note the burning oil wells.

TV in Washington, DC

Beirut summer ’82 a French doctor from Doctors Without Borders tends to my broken ankle, the result of an Israeli 155 mm white phosphorous shell that crashed into the UPI office, throwing me down a flight of stairs. Cindy, who later became my wife, is behind me.

Paris

At Kuwait Airport, trying to get a flight out. Notice the oil on my jeep.

Desert Storm — on the Iraqi border

SPIE-rigging with US Marines in Beirut. (SPIE stands for Special Patrol Insert-Exert) Next to me is Sgt. David Luttenberger

Me being helped into the Commodore Hotel in Beirut on Aug. 2, 1982 by Vincent Schodolski and Cynthia Nuckolls (who later became my wife). Frank Dougherty is on the left. I had suffered a broken ankle when an Israeli 155mm White Phospherous shell hit the UPI office.

With PLO leader Yasser Arafat