 After the Algeria Accords were signed on January 19, 1981, Morefield and the other captives were given medical examinations and were released the next day, placed on buses surrounded by crowds shouting "Bad, bad, America's bad" and leaving the country on an Algerian airplane.He called his wife after they landed in Germany and told her that "those people tried to break us", but that "we beat them".Morefield was reunited with his wife and children at Stewart International Airport on January 25.