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Thank You America is the real life story of Dr. Melvin Thomas who was just eight years old when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2nd 1990. In this book Melvin Thomas talks in depth of how one morning his family woke up to find their perfect world of existence shattered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and their hope for a good future disappearing from the horizon of life . This book records in vivid details the horrors of the Iraqi invasion, the life of war victims and the emotional and financial struggles the average expatriate family went through during the war. In the writing of Thank You America the author firmly believes that every reader will get a true picture of what it felt to be a victim of the vicious dictator Saddam Hussein and the inexpressible gratitude every single war victim felt for being liberated by the coalition forces led by the United States of America. Thank You America is a book of faith, hope and love that proves without a shadow of doubt that people from around the world respect and believe in the United States of America