SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- Three Americans rescued last week from captivity in the Colombian jungle will return to their homes Saturday, the U.S. Army South said. Left to right, Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes talk about spending more than 5 years as hostages. Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell have been undergoing a reintegration process at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, since their return 10 days ago to the United States. The men were among 15 hostages, including former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who were rescued July 2 in a Colombian military operation.
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Former FARC captives talk to CNN a week after they were freed
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One keeps a lock that held the chain that was placed around his neck at night
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Another has a cardboard chess set that he carved as a hostage
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FARC captured the U.S. government contractors hostage in February 2003
FARC
FARC
The men carried with them a metal lock, a bullet and a chess board made of cardboard -- small items that are reminders of the years they spent away from their families, cut off from the world outside the jungle, seeing only fellow hostages and their captors, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (@placeholder).
Marc Gonsalves
Marc Gonsalves
@placeholder also held small wooden chess pawns he had carved using a broken piece of a machete.
Thomas Howes
Thomas Howes
@placeholder, the most reticent of the three, carried with him a bullet from a commander who had once threatened to kill him.
Keith Stansell
Keith Stansell
The radio was also how @placeholder's girlfriend accepted his marriage proposal, which he had smuggled out with a hostage who had been released, he said.