Texas Base Stunned to See POWs

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"The white block lettering on an overpass near Fort Bliss's main gate is impossible to miss. "It's a Great Day To Be a Soldier," says the official base motto.

It may have seemed an apt exhortation in peacetime. But as the nation absorbed news on Sunday of American casualties and combat in Iraq, there was special anguish and disbelief at Fort Bliss, home base of a dozen GIs killed or captured near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah."