トマスハミルさん（AP)
投稿者： peteranniston2004 投稿日時： 2004/04/12 13:06 投稿番号： [33565 / 280993]
民間人で人質になっている彼の地元の
ミシシッピの片田舎ではそのころ
町中あげて イースターを費やして 祈っていた。
少なくとも 家族が 自分の政治的主張を叫んだり この一大事に 政府批判をしたり 「軍産複合体」を 非難している様子は ないですね。
なにが こう、違うんだろうか。
Town Holds Vigil for Man Kidnapped in Iraq
1 hour, 33 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP
By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer
MACON, Miss. - Friends and neighbors of an American civilian taken hostage in Iraq (news - web sites) gathered Sunday for a vigil outside the county courthouse, many wearing yellow ribbons and scrawling notes of support for his family after a morning deadline imposed by his abductors passed.
Thomas Hamill, 43, was snatched Friday by gunmen who attacked a fuel convoy he was guarding, the latest in a string of kidnappings in Iraq.
"I'm just praying," his grandmother, Vera Hamill, said Sunday.
His captors threatened to kill him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the city of Fallujah. The deadline passed Sunday morning with no word on Hamill's fate.
Several hundred residents gathered for a night vigil outside the Noxubee County Court House.
"We're just all pulling together for this man," said Mayor Dorothy Baker Hines.
In a videotape of Hamill, broadcast Saturday on the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera, his expression was calm but wary. A voice-over read by an Al-Jazeera announcer quoted Hamill as saying he was being treated well.
"I am in good shape," the voice-over quoted him as saying. "I hope to return home one day, and I want my family to know that these people are taking care of me, and provide me with food, water and a place to sleep."
Hamill went to Iraq last September as a truck driver for Kellogg, Brown and Root, his wife said.
"I don't really know anything, we don't know anything. ... Prayers are all we need right now," Kellie Hamill told The Commercial Dispatch of Columbus, Miss., in a telephone interview Saturday. "I'm doing about as good as can be expected under the circumstances."
The news of his capture hit hard in the small community, where friends say almost everyone knew Hamill.
Lamar White, who owns a country store, said he has known Hamill his whole life and described him as a "good guy," a family man with a young son and daughter.
Hamill was in the store about two weeks ago when he was home on emergency leave during his wife's open-heart surgery. At the time, they talked about Hamill's experiences in Iraq.
"He said it wasn't bad over there once you got used to it," White said. "He said it just takes a while to get adjusted but when you do it's all right."
Marion Gilbertson, 75, a longtime Macon resident, said her church dedicated their Easter service to Hamill.
"Instead of having regular service, we prayed for him," she said. "This is a small town. It hits us hard. God bless him, he's just trying to make a living for his family."
町中あげて イースターを費やして 祈っていた。
少なくとも 家族が 自分の政治的主張を叫んだり この一大事に 政府批判をしたり 「軍産複合体」を 非難している様子は ないですね。
なにが こう、違うんだろうか。
Town Holds Vigil for Man Kidnapped in Iraq
1 hour, 33 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP
By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer
MACON, Miss. - Friends and neighbors of an American civilian taken hostage in Iraq (news - web sites) gathered Sunday for a vigil outside the county courthouse, many wearing yellow ribbons and scrawling notes of support for his family after a morning deadline imposed by his abductors passed.
Thomas Hamill, 43, was snatched Friday by gunmen who attacked a fuel convoy he was guarding, the latest in a string of kidnappings in Iraq.
"I'm just praying," his grandmother, Vera Hamill, said Sunday.
His captors threatened to kill him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the city of Fallujah. The deadline passed Sunday morning with no word on Hamill's fate.
Several hundred residents gathered for a night vigil outside the Noxubee County Court House.
"We're just all pulling together for this man," said Mayor Dorothy Baker Hines.
In a videotape of Hamill, broadcast Saturday on the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera, his expression was calm but wary. A voice-over read by an Al-Jazeera announcer quoted Hamill as saying he was being treated well.
"I am in good shape," the voice-over quoted him as saying. "I hope to return home one day, and I want my family to know that these people are taking care of me, and provide me with food, water and a place to sleep."
Hamill went to Iraq last September as a truck driver for Kellogg, Brown and Root, his wife said.
"I don't really know anything, we don't know anything. ... Prayers are all we need right now," Kellie Hamill told The Commercial Dispatch of Columbus, Miss., in a telephone interview Saturday. "I'm doing about as good as can be expected under the circumstances."
The news of his capture hit hard in the small community, where friends say almost everyone knew Hamill.
Lamar White, who owns a country store, said he has known Hamill his whole life and described him as a "good guy," a family man with a young son and daughter.
Hamill was in the store about two weeks ago when he was home on emergency leave during his wife's open-heart surgery. At the time, they talked about Hamill's experiences in Iraq.
"He said it wasn't bad over there once you got used to it," White said. "He said it just takes a while to get adjusted but when you do it's all right."
Marion Gilbertson, 75, a longtime Macon resident, said her church dedicated their Easter service to Hamill.
"Instead of having regular service, we prayed for him," she said. "This is a small town. It hits us hard. God bless him, he's just trying to make a living for his family."
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