51.   The two soldiers formed a deep mutual respect at this time and have remained in contact as friends ever since.

52.   The U.S. Defense Department, which had initially contended that the three soldiers were in Macedonia, said the issue was under investigation.

53.   The two soldiers donned their blue suits, gloves, boots, heavy air packs and masks.

54.   The two soldiers have made it clear they are willing to talk.

55.   The two soldiers killed and two wounded were trying to dismantle a roadside bomb when it exploded, according to Israeli news reports.

56.   Three of the four soldiers died Wednesday after being pulled out of the water when they began showing signs of severely lowered body temperatures, or hypothermia.

57.   Thursday night, officials, giving out information on condition of anonymity, released a brief transcript of the radio transmission between the three soldiers and their base.

58.   Two planes were downed, three soldiers captured, but both pilots were rescued, and the three soldiers were sprung.

59.   When the first pilot is shot down, or the first three soldiers are captured, we go into deep yellow-ribbon schizophrenia.

60.   While military officials are saying little about the case, they have implied that Soto and the four soldiers were part of a band of deviant homosexuals.