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...mortar crew when he was captured by German troops near the town of Aachen in October 1944. He spent much of the following winter being force-marched across Germany before he was liberated in April 1945. A half-century later, Winsick still can't speak of his ordeal without crying, but at least it did earn him one benefit: as a former pow, he was entitled to lifelong free medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Or so he thought...
Hill recounted his 15-year ordeal in prison and the international campaign launched by family and friends for his release. In 1989, Hill and the three other men imprisoned, known as "the Guildford Four," were released. Hill, however, had to spend the next five years contesting an outstanding murder charge...
...fund we have raised is by no means enough to make a difference in the lives of the earthquake victims," Sarakinos said in an e-mail message yesterday. "Yet, with our donation, we want to tell them that we care about them and think about their ordeal, even though we are thousands of miles away...
Only time will tell whether the end of this ordeal will put the ring back in the cash register, as devoted viewers emerge from their dens and head groggily for the malls, with disposable income that has not been spent since the trial began...
...been an ordeal. "A lot of us put on weight," says Moran, 45, a computer technician. "I grew depressed and cried a lot and had headaches. I sacrificed a relationship. It ended because I didn't want to worry about him out there any more. The financial hardships were bad. Some jurors ended up borrowing from each other. There were expenses on the weekend outings that we had to pick up ourselves." And there had been some racial tension among the jurors in the beginning. "The whites and the Mexican would sit at one table for meals, the rest...