[Previous entry: "Dream Team?"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Dole Questions Kerry's Vietnam Wounds"]

08/23/2004 Archived Entry: "U.S. soldier weds Iraqi love"

Posted by steve @ 12:32 AM EST [Link]

COOL STORY OF THE DAY: Come for the war, stay for the woman. A U.S. Army reservist has married a woman he met in Baghdad while serving in Iraq.

Robert Hall, 23, says he knew within a month that he would marry Vivian Mansour, 21, of Baghdad, even though at first neither spoke a word of each other's language.

Hall, an Army reservist who earned a Bronze Star for meritorious service during his one-year tour, said he's never been happier. The two were married here Saturday.

"I never in my life saw this coming," he said.

For them, cultural differences are offset by a shared Christian faith. Mansour is a Kurdish Christian -- a population that makes up just 3 percent of Iraq's 24 million people.

"It's such a learning experience," Hall said. "Our cultures are different, but the way we look at it is, we're both children of God."

Good luck to the both of them.

Read on.