Happy ending!

A heartwarming story of the bleak days before the rescue and the rescue of the seven American POWs recently rescued from the Iraqis. I am glad they were alive.

Dark days, with death outside door

Deliverance came loudly and without warning. Suddenly today at the house in Samarra the prisoners heard someone kicking in the doors and shouting: "Get down! Get down!".

"I was sitting there," Miller recalled a few hours later. "Next thing I know the Marines are kicking in the door, saying get down on the floor. They said, "If you're an American, stand up." We stood up and they hustled us out of there."

By this time, the male prisoners had grown light beards and their shoulders had sagged; in their Iraqi prison pajamas, they could be mistaken for the other side. The Marines had trouble distinguishing Johnson as an American. "At first," she said, "they didn't realize I was American. They said, "Get down, get down," and one of them said, "No, she's American."

Johnson, mother of a girl named Janelle who turns 3 next month, was overwhelmed to realize she was saved and would see her daughter again. “I broke down. I was like, "Oh my God, I'm going home!"