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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
At least seven Rappahannock County families wait anxiously for word from loved ones serving in Operation Desert Storm, but communications from the war zone remain spotty.
Rose Ann Sharp, whose brother, Ai^ny Lt. Charles J. Hyde, is serving on a tank unit near the Kuwaiti border, said her parents got a phone call from him about 12 hours before the war began, but have not heard from him * since. Lt. Hyde has a five-month-old baby born just after he left, “and he just wanted to hear his wife and baby,” Mrs. Sharp said.
Due to security regulations, Lt. Hyde was vague about the then-impending war when his parents asked about it, Mrs. Sharp added. He told his mother, “I was hoping you could tell me” what is going on, she said. “He said he just called to say‘Hi’.” t
Mrs. Sharp said she sees the situation becoming more serious as more time passes, with the danger that Jordan, Israel and possibly other countries might, be dragged into the conflict. “It’s getting really scary now.”
She said she has found a different reaction within herself to this war. “My father did two tours in Vietnam, while I was out in the peace marches. He sat me down later and explained that it didn’t help. He said, ‘You
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