Word: keenan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said in response to a question from the reporters gathered in Wiesbaden. "The worst day I had was Christmas of 1986." A veteran storyteller, Anderson first set the scene. He was in solitary. Similarly confined but within eyeshot were fellow hostages Tom Sutherland, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan. "We had nothing, no books, nothing...
...each other." Anderson explained that he had learned sign language in high school, a one-handed alphabet that he taught the other captives, improvising new signs for those he had forgotten. On this bleak day, Anderson was relaying silent messages to Sutherland, who would pass them on to Keenan, and so forth. Then calamity struck. "I took off my glasses and dropped them and broke them," he said. "My eyes are very bad. Couldn't see." End of silent, cell- to-cell dialogue. End of story. "That was a bad day," he concluded, the sorrow returning for a moment with...
...strengths to draw on. Family and colleagues describe him as a fun-loving young man who was close to his parents and elder brother. "He's a born optimist, a fighter, with a huge zest for life," says his father Patrick. That description is echoed by former cellmate Brian Keenan, an Irishman who was released last year. Says Keenan: "He is the daftest, craziest man I ever met." And a marvelous mimic too: "I never knew if I was playing dominoes against Sigmund Freud or Peter Sellers. Without him I don't think I would have made...
Later, when several men shared a room and were allowed to remove their blindfolds, Anderson carried out a compulsive daily routine of cleaning, pacing the room, talking aloud. Keenan says, "Terry's a bit of a bulky and belligerent man" with "a voracious hunger for intellectual conversation." Anderson went on a hunger strike at least once. Keenan says Anderson took his ailments stoically, "for in truth all pain and illness were generally dismissed by our keepers, though they would eventually supply us with some form of antibiotics...
...Keenan raised new hopes after his release a year ago. He said he was convinced Waite was still alive and was being held in isolation in Beirut. He told a television interviewer that his guards had called the man in the cell next to his "Terry," and he knew it wasn't Anderson...