By Maj. Juanita Chang
25th ID TAC PAO
MOSUL — Eight years and many small miracles later, U.S. Army Spc. Jotyar Tile retuned to his native land and will be serving both his countries.
Tile remembers the day his family fled northern Iraq after years of bombing and terror by Saddam Hussein’s government.“If we had stayed one more day we would not have made it out alive; they were using chemicals against us and destroying our villages," Tile said.
25th ID TAC PAO
MOSUL — Eight years and many small miracles later, U.S. Army Spc. Jotyar Tile retuned to his native land and will be serving both his countries.
Tile remembers the day his family fled northern Iraq after years of bombing and terror by Saddam Hussein’s government.“If we had stayed one more day we would not have made it out alive; they were using chemicals against us and destroying our villages," Tile said.
“My father was a hard headed and proud Kurd and did not want to leave our home. We were the last family to leave Qumri,” he said. For years his family had endured the anti-Kurdish campaign led by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
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(Photo: U.S. Army Spc. Jotyar K. Tile, 35, returns to his homeland in northern Iraq to serve both his countries.)
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