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Father, son meet in Iraq after 19-year separation
"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.”
Stars and Stripes: Father, son meet face-to-face in Iraq after 19-year separation
"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.”
Stars and Stripes: Father, son meet face-to-face in Iraq after 19-year separation