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Reporters to Supporters: You 'Gave Us Hope'

Ling, Lee thank supporters in online video

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(Newser) – Laura Ling and Euna Lee use a new video on Current TV's website to thank Americans “from the bottom of our hearts” for support during their North Korean captivity. “We learned about this grassroots movement on Facebook, about people writing in to their congressmen, to the president,” says Ling. They also learned of candelight vigils around the time of their trial. “We thought about those lights and they gave us hope.”

“It was a tough time in our lives, and we would love to share our experience with you in time,” Lee says, “but right now we want to go back to our own lives and spend time with our families.”

Laura Ling and Euna Lee thank supporters.
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TheSniperZero
Aug 14, 09 11:25 AM CDT
Glad they made it out, even if we did have send Bill Clinton over there to kiss Kim J Ills butt. I guess everyone has forgotten about the Americans still being held in Iran. Reply
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Citrixguy
Aug 14, 09 11:39 AM CDT
Quote "they gave us hope", and a chance to sell a book for big profit Reply
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ruserious
Aug 14, 09 11:47 AM CDT
I'm sure that's what they set out to do when they commenced their investigative reports on the border communities. And we've all been taken for the ride.
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MikeS
Aug 14, 09 1:08 PM CDT
Tough time in your lives? Poor babies. I think they are spoiled brats. The trouble they caused with their cavalier "reporting" was a waste of a lot of people's time and energy. They are ridiculous. Reply
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youngblood
Aug 14, 09 1:55 PM CDT
Boycott their asshole book unless they give the $$$$ to a worthwhile charity because they brought it on themselves for entering into N. Korea just exactly like her sister Lisa Ling did for her documentary, THEY WERE TOLD TO STAY OUT OF NORTH KOREA BEFORE THEY LEFT U.S SOIL AND THEY DID NOT, so which part of that did they not get?!! Now we'll suppose to buy her book....give me a fucking break about their book! Reply
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