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Interview With Family of POW

Aired March 24, 2003 - 09:54   ET

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PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: We're following up on that POW story, another of the American POWs in Iraq has now been identified by his family. Private First Class Patrick Miller is one of five soldiers captured and shown on Iraqi TV yesterday. We are joined this morning by his half-brother Thomas Hershberger, his sister, Kimberly (ph) and his brother, Shane Parker. They all join us live from Wichita, Kansas.
Thank you very much for being with us at this very tough time for your family.

Kimberly (ph), have you had a chance to see these pictures or the video that shows your brother?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've seen the pictures and that's about it.

ZAHN: And how did Patrick look to you?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As good as possible you could think of. I mean, he could look worse but he doesn't. He looks pretty good.

ZAHN: Shane, what did you think when you saw this image for the first time?

SHANE PARKER, POW'S BROTHER: He looks better than some of them I've seen.

A couple pictures on...

ZAHN: When did you find out - sorry to interrupt. When did you find out your brother was a prisoner of war, Shane?

PARKER: About 5:30 yesterday evening.

ZAHN: And how did they break -- how was the news broken to you?

PARKER: My brother, Tom, told me.

ZAHN: And, Tom, how did you get the news?

THOMAS HERSHBERGER, POW'S HALF BROTHER: I got the news from my mother. She had been talking to my sister. And they had been listening to the news, and they came to find out that it was probably, or could be him, and then they found his picture on the Internet.

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Aired March 24, 2003 - 09:54   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: We're following up on that POW story, another of the American POWs in Iraq has now been identified by his family. Private First Class Patrick Miller is one of five soldiers captured and shown on Iraqi TV yesterday. We are joined this morning by his half-brother Thomas Hershberger, his sister, Kimberly (ph) and his brother, Shane Parker. They all join us live from Wichita, Kansas.
Thank you very much for being with us at this very tough time for your family.

Kimberly (ph), have you had a chance to see these pictures or the video that shows your brother?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've seen the pictures and that's about it.

ZAHN: And how did Patrick look to you?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As good as possible you could think of. I mean, he could look worse but he doesn't. He looks pretty good.

ZAHN: Shane, what did you think when you saw this image for the first time?

SHANE PARKER, POW'S BROTHER: He looks better than some of them I've seen.

A couple pictures on...

ZAHN: When did you find out - sorry to interrupt. When did you find out your brother was a prisoner of war, Shane?

PARKER: About 5:30 yesterday evening.

ZAHN: And how did they break -- how was the news broken to you?

PARKER: My brother, Tom, told me.

ZAHN: And, Tom, how did you get the news?

THOMAS HERSHBERGER, POW'S HALF BROTHER: I got the news from my mother. She had been talking to my sister. And they had been listening to the news, and they came to find out that it was probably, or could be him, and then they found his picture on the Internet.

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