Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle BOTY_2025 Speechless and alone

Speechless and alone

As the kids work together to build a community garden

the Meuse-Argonne

hurtled toward World War II

Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle BOTY_2025 Speechless and aloneOn February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at their faces. As of that moment they belonged to the Colombian terrorist organization known as the FARC, American captives in Colombias volatile conflict that has stretched over the last half century. This