ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : 10 Years Ago Today . . .
. . . In a ceremony attended by 500 people, families of American hostages being held in Lebanon planted trees at a Westminster park to honor the captives.
Eric Jacobsen, son of hostage David P. Jacobsen of Huntington Beach, criticized the bombing of Libya, which prompted the retaliatory killing of American hostage Peter Kilburn.
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