Claudene Davis, in front of her house on her high school graduation day. Notice the cracks in the wall of the house. "It's no wonder we had to fight the dust," she said. After a big dust storm, they would sometimes have to use a shovel to scoop the dust from inside the house.

Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder fled the territory disguised as a woodcutter because the proslavery Border Ruffians threatened to hang him.

Asaf Muhammad was just twelve years old when Saddam Hussein's troops invaded his Kurdish village at the end of Operation Desert Storm. He went with his family into Turkey, where they received help at a Coalition refugee camp. According to Asaf, "The Americans saved our lives."