Saturday, January 5, 2013   New Picture 10 Famous Hostages Who
Lived To Tell The Tale By Yvonne McArthur, Best Counseling
Schools, 19 December 2012.  For most of us, kidnappings only
ever happen on screen, in edge-of-your seat thrillers on
television or in the movies. However, for some people, being
taken hostage is an all-too-painful and traumatizing reality.
Such prisoners live under constant threat, enduring cruelty,
solitude and uncertainty for protracted periods of time.
Although they lived through their experiences and tasted
freedom, the 10 hostage survivors on this list didn’t get out
completely unscathed - after all, psychological scars run deep.
Some of these individuals were rescued, others were released,
and a few even managed to escape their captors. Yet whatever the
case, they all showed extraordinary human resilience in extreme
circumstances. And in the end, they were the lucky ones.  10.
Norman Kember  New Picture (1)  In 2005, Christian pacifist
Norman Kember went to Iraq as a volunteer with