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“............There were 53 Americans held hostage after the Iranian revolution (52 were held for 444 days and one was released earlier). Only 38 are still living. Of the 26 spouses of hostages, 19 are still alive. After experiencing beatings, mock executions and prolonged imprisonment, many of the hostages and their families had a great deal of trouble resuming the lives they had been leading beforehand.
“My colleagues endured a lot of terrible physical and psychological abuse,” says Hermening, a 55-year-old investment adviser, financial planner and one-time candidate for office who grew up in Oak Creek and now lives in Mosinee, just south of Wausau. “Bad things have happened as a result of those days of captivity to a lot of (them).”.....