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January 21, 2011



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The seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran back in 1979 was a low point in American history. Americans followed every step of that crisis as employees of the Iranian embassy were held hostage for 444 days. Thirty years after their ordeal those former hostages are returning to the site of their homecoming, holding a reunion at the U.S. Military Academy. "Right from the beginning Americans took these hostages — their fellow Americans — to heart," said Temple historian David Farber, author of Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam.