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Naval Officer Remembers 444 Days of Captivity
WTWO ^ | 5/25/2004

Posted on 05/26/2004 11:21:21 PM PDT by F14 Pilot

A man taken hostage 25 years ago in Iran revisits those memories.

On November 4th, 1979, Iranian militants stormed into the American embassy in Tehran and took 52 people hostage, including former US Navy Capt. Don Sharer.

On Tuesday, the Exchange Club of Terre Haute honored Sharer for his military service.

He reminded club members to honor all veterans, and those serving our country right now.

Sharer was held prisoner in Iran for 444 days, and says he never lost hope that he would come home alive. "Whatever I did, I said I want to be proud of myself. I`m not going to succumb to anything they want me to do. Sometimes they put you on the hairy edge of being shot, but I was willing to take that chance," Sharer explained.

In 1996, Congress approved legislation allowing victims of state-sponsored terrorism to go after assets of those countries.

All living Iranian crisis hostages, including Sharer, are seeking $7.9 billion dollars from Iran.

No hostages have received any monetary retribution to date.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: congress; crisis; hostage; iran; iranianhostages; sharer; states; terrorism; us; usembassy
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1 posted on 05/26/2004 11:21:21 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
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To: RaceBannon; Cindy; freedom44; Ragtime Cowgirl; Pan_Yans Wife; yonif

PING!


2 posted on 05/26/2004 11:23:40 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
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To: F14 Pilot

Payback's a bitch. And "revenge is a dish persons of refinement prefer cold." After a quarter of a century I'm thinking it's cooled off enough.


3 posted on 05/26/2004 11:29:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: RaceBannon

ping!
444 days always remembered.


4 posted on 05/26/2004 11:38:57 PM PDT by freedom44
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To: Billthedrill

Iranians are really great people who love the US- try to blame the extremists in control and not the ordinary people, Bill.

A radical reaction to the 1953 overthrow of a Secular government in Iran which was induced by the MI6 should be denounced, but so should the 53 MI6 corruption for cheap oil.


5 posted on 05/26/2004 11:42:17 PM PDT by freedom44
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To: F14 Pilot; All

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6 posted on 05/27/2004 1:07:41 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
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To: backhoe

This is also great!

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7 posted on 05/27/2004 1:10:42 AM PDT by F14 Pilot (John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
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To: F14 Pilot

Copied & saved- thanks!


8 posted on 05/27/2004 2:02:11 AM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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