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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Specialist Shoshana Johnson, author of I’m Still Standing

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ShoShana Johnson, author of I’m Still Standing: From Captive Soldier to Free Citizen – My Journey Home
(Touchstone Books / Simon & Schuster)

In the earliest days of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003, the world was shaken by reports of a deadly ambush on a U.S. Army convoy on its way to Baghdad. The 507th Maintenance Company, a combat service support unit, was brutally attacked by a well-armed mob of civilians. Eleven people were killed; Shoshana Johnson, an army cook, and four others were captured and held prisoner for 22 days.

I’m Still Standing: From Captive Soldier to Free Citizen – My Journey Home is Johnson’s extraordinary chronicle of her captivity, while providing a revealing eyewitness account of her experiences as a POW. It is a rare view of one of the key incidents of the war in Iraq. Told with candor and insight, I’m Still Standing is Johnson’s deeply personal account of how she survived.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write I’m Still Standing?

ShoShana Johnson: My family were big cheerleaders/advocates for me to write a Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Specialist Shoshana Johnson, author of I’m Still Standing →