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 window of the jeep. That wasn't very much fun, but
 fortunately nobody was seriously hurt. Then they took
 us back to the General's house and about sunset they
 again blindfolded us and handcuffed us, put us in the
 jeep, and started driving towards Baghdad. From where
 we were to Baghdad took about six hours or so. And I
 could tell from the blindfold, that the sun was going
 down and we were heading to the east, and I figured we
 were going to Baghdad. We transferred hands through
 different army posts or divisions a couple of times and
 at one point, they took off our blindfolds and the last
 sign I saw said "Baghdad, 20 kilometers." I was pretty
 sure I knew where we were. We got to Baghdad that night
 and they blindfolded us again. That's really where the
 first professional interrogation started. We got there
 about 3 o'clock in the morning; they interrogated us some
 and then put us out in this open shed for the rest of the
 night. Then in the morning, they took us to a bunker in
 downtown Baghdad, where they asked us some more in-depth
 questions. Then we were taken to a prison, the first
 prison we stayed at. So two nights after being captured,
 I was in a prison in Baghdad

 Q: What was your food situation? Were they feeding you
 anything?

 A: We had nothing to eat when we were hiding out on the 
 ground. When the Army guys captured us at the post near
 the border, they did give us something to eat. We had
 something to eat there and then nothing again until we
 had been in the prison, the next day after we'd gotten
 to the prison. So we were pretty hungry.

 Q: They didn't feed you very adequately, then?

 A: It varied from prison to prison. My time as a POW was
 spent in four different prisons. The first prison was
 apparently run by the Army. There we got three meals a
 day. Normally you had something cold: rice, soup, or
 something for breakfast; for lunch: there was again rice,
 with something on it, usually some sort of vegetable
 broth; and then at night there was another kind of broth.
 That was kind of sparse, but it was okay. The second
 prison, after being in that one prison for a week we were
 transferred apparently to the Secret Police...out of the 
 Army control to the Secret Police. There, we only got
 fed once a day, and that was a bowl of thin broth and
 three pieces of pita bread. And that is the prison where
 most of the guys lost some weight. I was there for about
 a month and lost 20 pounds. The living conditions were
 pretty harsh there. We got out of that prison basically
 because it was bombed. And at that time, although we
 didn't know it, the war was winding down. The ground

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