'We're Just Devastated,' Slain Hostages' Relatives Say

[BeyondGeography]

By DANNY HAKIM
The New York Times

Published: September 21, 2004

HILLSDALE, Mich., Sept. 20 - Scores of townspeople gathered at an impromptu candlelight vigil in the early evening here after the news of the execution of Eugene Armstrong. Mr. Armstrong, known as Jack, grew up in this small town in southern Michigan, and though he left more than a dozen years ago to travel the world, his brothers and cousins remain.

"We're just devastated." said Cyndi Armstrong, the wife of a cousin of Mr. Armstrong who attended the event on behalf of the family. "I don't know what else to say about how we feel."

<snip> Earlier in the day, relatives of Jack Hensley of Marietta, Ga., spoke to reporters about his captivity. Mr. Hensley is the remaining American hostage from the three construction workers who were taken from a house in Baghdad.

<snip>Ty Hensley said that his brother had gone to Iraq when he could not find construction work at home and that leaving early would be a financial hit.

But he said Jack's wife, Patty, had tried to convince him to come home. Ty Hensley went on to say: "I'm sure that he had signed a year contract. It was important that he make it a year for him financially, but she began talking to him in very strong capacity to come back over the last week and a half. And she told him it does not matter financially, to come home."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/national/21family.html

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. If the world is safer because of GWB...

Why is he the only CIC with the blood of multiple Americans beheaded by Middle East on his hands? MKJ