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Saw this on the news yesterday and it really got to me.  All 5 of the families need prayer, the men (if they are alive) and the captors as well.

A Ridgefield Washington woman whose son was kidnapped in Iraq found new hope in a grisly message from the captors.

Josh Munns, 25, and four other men were kidnapped in Iraq 16 months ago. Recently, someone delivered five severed fingers to the U.S. military in Iraq and DNA testing proved they belong to the hostages.  Jackie Stewart, Munns' mother, hasn't known if her son was alive or dead for more than a year.  Experts told Stewart they can't tell if the fingers were taken when the men were still alive, but she said she's holding out the ultimate hope that her son will come home."If the evidence was not degraded so much that they could get fingerprints and DNA from it ... he's still alive," Stewart said. "And I've never thought he was alive. It's just really hard when you've been doing this so long to keep up faith."

Munns was working for a business named Crescent Security. His mother said officials believe two of the Iraq kidnappers were former Crescent employees.

This is her only child.  Apparently there hasn't been a single message from the captors, no ransom note, no demands, no explanation, absolutely no word from them at all.  I don't know where the other 4 men they have are from but I can't imagine what their families are going through now.  After 16 months they were probably beginning to feel that it was over, they weren't ever going to see the men again and were trying to come to grips with it.  Now, they get this!? 

Oh, my goodness, Sara!  How terrible.  I just can't imagine this at all.  Oh, I'll be praying for this dear mother and the other family members involved.

Oh, my!