Iranian Hostage: A Personal Diary of 444 Days in Captivity

356 Pages·1982·42.62 MB·English

by  Rocky Sickmann

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A Personal
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OF 444 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY...
By ROCKY SICKMANN
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June 29. 1980 Day 239
''Earlier this morning, midnight to
he exact, a very touching thing
happened. ..From one of the cells in
the hallway we could hear a couple
of men singing ^'Happy Birthday" to
someone back in the States. It
musfve been one of the hostage's
wife or daughter. It really struck all
of us. It's a shame that we're being
kept from our families like this, and
knowing these people don't under-
stand... tonight when I heard that
birthday song there wasn't any hap-
piness or life in it. Although they
.
were trying, it was really sad. .
On November 4, 1979, the American
Embassy in Tehran, Iran, fell to militant
Iranian students protesting the arrival in
the U.S. of Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahla\i. Fifty-two Americans, Rock>'
Sickmann among them, were held
prisoner in Iran for the full length of that
international outrage—444 days.
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Iranian
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A Personal
Diary
OF 444 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY...
by Rocky Sickmann
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2010
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Iranian
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A Personal
Diary
OF 444 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY...
by Rocky Sickmann
With a Prologue by the Editor,
Erin Leslie Antrim
Introduction by Mike Printz
CRAWFORD PRESS
A divison of The American Companies, Inc.
Topelca, Kansas 1962
Copyright © 1982 by Rocky Sickmann
All rights resened. This book, or parts thereof,
must not be reproduced in an\' form without permission.
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Library of Congress Catalog CaroNumber: 82-71537
I. S.B.N. 0-88103-000-7
Published b\- Cra\%ford Press
A di\Tsion of The American Companies, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
Dedication
To my family
Mr. & Mrs. Virgil Sickmann,
Gene, Judy, Debbie, and Kurt
And to my wife
Jill Renee
'The love and loyalty you instill
Fills my heart my darling Jill
The memories we shared together
Mine to cherish forever and ever
If I should survive this strife
Would you consent to be my wife.
from a poem written in captivity
MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER
> PUBLIC LIBRARY
BROOMFIELD, COLCHADO