05-02-2004, 09:39 AM
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hovering in the distance
Location: the land of milk and honey
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American hostage escapes
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The Associated Press
Updated: 12:11 p.m. ET May 02, 2004MACON, Miss. - The civilian contractor who escaped Sunday after three weeks as a hostage in Iraq called home and sounded “so wonderful,” his wife said as their town buzzed with excitement. The mayor promised “a parade that will not end.”
Thomas Hamill, kidnapped during an insurgent attack on his supply convoy April 9, escaped from a house south of Tikrit and ran to a nearby U.S. patrol, the U.S. military said.
Hamill, 43, from Macon, was “in good health,” said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt. A gunshot wound to his left arm, possibly suffered when he was captured, appeared to be infected and he was flown to Baghdad, Maj. Neal O’Brien said.
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“He sounded wonderful, so wonderful. He said he was fine,” Kellie Hamill told The AP. “He said he was more worried about his mom, his grandmother, me and our kids.”
She said he told her he had been locked in a building and “he said he heard a military convoy come by and pried the door open. He said he ran half a mile down the road and got with the convoy. Isn’t that something?”
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sounds like the kidnappers had their shit together 
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