French soldiers from the Foreign Legion Infantry regiment in the Saudi desert near Hafr al-Batin, wear full chemical warfare equipment during a training session during the Gulf War on October 26, 1990. #

Responding to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, troops of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division deploy across the Saudi desert on November 4, 1990, during preparations prior to the Gulf War. #

Cazenovia College students Amy Acker, of Rochester, left, and Sandra Ceplo, of Afton, comfort a tearful Megan Murray, of Mechanicville, center, while placing yellow bows and ribbons on campus in Cazenovia, New York, on January 15, 1991. Scores of students, many with loved ones serving in the Persian Gulf decorated buildings, trees and bushes with ribbon in honor and support of U.S. troops. #

U.S. President George H. W. Bush adjusts paperwork in the Oval Office of the White House on January 16, 1991 in Washington following his statement concerning the U.S. attack of Iraq. The president said, “The world could wait no longer,” for U.S. action. #

Rebecca Spice, a tourist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is flanked by Joel Kopischke, left, and Robert Simonson, both of New York, as they read a bulletin edition of the New York Post reporting the outbreak of hostilities in the Persian Gulf in New York’s Times Square on January 17, 1991. #

Boston University freshman Christopher Cooley raises his fists before a U.S. flag in support of news that the U.S. forces had started military actions against Iraq, during a demonstration at the Statehouse in Boston on January 17, 1991. #

Sergeant Rachel Forehand, from Brooklyn, New York, rests her head on a stuffed bear as the U.N. deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passed in Saudi Arabia on January 16, 1991. Forehand is a nurse with 28th Combat Support Hospital, stationed at Fort Bragg. N.C. She and other members of her unit were waiting for a plane carry them to a forward base. #

Anti-aircraft tracer lights up downtown Baghdad, in a January 17, 1991 photograph as U.S. Air Force bombers and cruise missiles attack Baghad during the Gulf War. Twenty-five years ago warplanes from the U.S.-led alliance screeched over Kuwait early on January 17, 1991, signalling the start of the Gulf War which ended Iraq's occupation six weeks later. #

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, left, appears at a war briefing at the Pentagon on January 17, 1991 announcing loss of an American warplane in the attack on Iraq. At right is General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. #

A U.S. soldier and Saudi police officers examine the wreckage of a missile, believed to be a Soviet-made Scud, which landed in downtown Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on January 22, 1991 when Iraq launched a missile attack on the Saudi capital. #

A crowd estimated in the tens of thousands makes its way down Market Street in San Francisco, on January 19, 1991, while protesting the United States attack on Iraq and Kuwait. #

Soldiers, hotel workers and others, some wearing gas masks, kneel for morning prayers on January 18, 1991, in a basement used as a bomb shelter at a hotel in eastern Saudi Arabia. A Scud missile fired by Iraq had reportedly been intercepted and destroyed by a Patriot missile earlier in the day. #

A young Iraqi boy carried a plate of sausage in the ruins of houses in an area west of Al-Ahrar Bridge, Baghdad, on February 20, 1991, after a recent allied bombing raid. #

Three British soldiers in full combat and gas gear wait for the all-clear signal in a hotel lobby in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, during a Scud attack on February 26, 1991. The three wait under the portraits of the present and former Saudi monarchs. #

A wounded Ken Kozakiewicz, left, cries after being given the dogtags and learning of the death of a fellow tank crewman, in the bodybag at right, in this February 28, 1991 photo. The widely published photo came to define the Persian Gulf war for many. At right is wounded comrade Michael Santarakis. The soldiers were from the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. #

U.S. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, left, escorts Iraqi Lt. General Sultan Hashim Ahmad, third from left, with other Iraqi military leaders to a tent prior to the start of a meeting to set the terms for a permanent ceasefire. The meeting took place at an airbase in Safwan, Iraq, on March 3, 1991. #

An Iraqi sits huddled in a barbed wire holding area at a U.S. checkpoint some 25 miles south of Basra, on March 28, 1991 in Iraq, after he and four others were arrested by U.S. soldiers for allegedly robbing and murdering refugees. Four members of the five-member gang were armed and all were carrying a “considerable amount of money” according to U.S. officials. #

U.S. soldiers returning from the Gulf make telephone calls at New York's Kennedy Airport on March 8, 1991. The soldiers, tired after their 14-hour flight via Rome, flashed “victory” signs as they stepped off planes to the sound of cheering airline employees, and an Army band that played “God Bless America.” #

A long line of vehicles, including destroyed Iraqi Army Russian-made T-62 tanks and trucks stand abandoned by fleeing Iraqi troops on the outskirts of Kuwait City, on March 1, 1991, after the Allied troops liberated the capital of Kuwait. #

A devastated convoy of vehicles on a highway north of Kuwait City is visible in this aerial photo made on March 1, 1991, during the Gulf War. Iraqi forces fleeing the city in every available vehicle were intercepted by allied forces and destroyed. #

Several blown-out wells damaged by retreating Iraqi soldiers in Al-Ahmadi oil-field burn on April 1, 1991, in southern Kuwait. Iraqi troops retreating after a seven-month occupation, smashed and torched 727 wells, badly polluting the atmosphere and creating crude oil lakes. In addition, up to eight billion barrels of oil were split into the sea by Iraqi forces damaging marine life and coastal areas up to 400 kilometers (250 miles) away. #

The effects of Iraqi troops setting fire to the oil wells in Kuwait during February 1991, is captured in this near-vertical photograph of the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf taken on April 7, 1991. The black smoke plumes of more than 700 individual oil-well fires are being blown by the wind. Kuwait City is visible at center-left (north is to the right in this rotated image). #

Red Adair’s fire-fighting crews at work on April 1, 1991, beside a blown-out well damaged by retreating Iraqi soldiers in Al-Ahmadi oil field in southern Kuwait. #