Gracia to write book: 'I want to tell the real story'.

(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Byline: Roy S. de Guzman

"I WANT to tell the real story of our captivity-about our ordeal, about how it affected our relationship with each other and with God, and about our wonderful friends and family who worked so hard and prayed so faithfully for our release."

The best way to do this, former Abu Sayyaf hostage and American missionary Gracia Burnham decided, was to write a book about her year-long nightmare in the southern Philippine jungles.

"The men who abducted and held us, who murdered and mistreated human beings, who kept us running and starving in the jungle, are criminals and deserve to be …