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When eight immigrants arrived at the Baltimore Federal Courthouse to be sworn in as citizens, they didn’t give a thought to the trial next door of five terrorists charged with blowing up a federal building.
Baltimore Sun Reporter Mark Shrader did care about that trial. His wife and unborn child had been killed in that explosion, but in spite of his pleas to cover the case, he was instead ordered to write a Sunday Supplement article on the new citizens.
Federal Judge Hendrix had reached the part of the Oath of Allegiance that required the new citizens to promise that they would support, protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and that they would bear true faith and allegiance thereto when the terrorists escaped their guards next door and took them all hostage.
But Mark Shrader was not upset when they were captured. He had prayed that someday he would have the chance for vengeance on his wife’s killers, even at the cost of his own life. Now his chance had come.
Mark Shrader asked the immigrants to help him fight back and several of them agreed. As they organized their attack on the killers, hostage Le Thai Mai’s grown son, a rookie Baltimore police officer, embarked on a desperate and unauthorized plan to save his mother’s life.
Baltimore Sun Reporter Mark Shrader did care about that trial. His wife and unborn child had been killed in that explosion, but in spite of his pleas to cover the case, he was instead ordered to write a Sunday Supplement article on the new citizens.
Federal Judge Hendrix had reached the part of the Oath of Allegiance that required the new citizens to promise that they would support, protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and that they would bear true faith and allegiance thereto when the terrorists escaped their guards next door and took them all hostage.
But Mark Shrader was not upset when they were captured. He had prayed that someday he would have the chance for vengeance on his wife’s killers, even at the cost of his own life. Now his chance had come.
Mark Shrader asked the immigrants to help him fight back and several of them agreed. As they organized their attack on the killers, hostage Le Thai Mai’s grown son, a rookie Baltimore police officer, embarked on a desperate and unauthorized plan to save his mother’s life.