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(10 Jun 2002) 1. Freed hostage Gracia Burnham in a wheelchair entering airport lounge 2. Cameraman 3. Gracia Burnham 4. Gracia Burnham and US Ambassador to the Philippines, Francis Ricciardone 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gracia Burnham, rescued hostage "Good morning. Martin and I had so many dear friends here in the Philippines. You know who you are. Our friends in Malaybalay, in Brookes Point, in Darapida, in Manila - we love you so very much and we thank you for the precious memories that you gave us during our 15 years here. Martin loved this country with all his heart. We want to thank each and everyone of you for every time you remembered us in prayer. We needed every single prayer you prayed for us during our ordeal in the jungle. We know there are countless of you who don't even know us, who prayed and offered support also and we thank you too. We especially want to thank the military men, the Filipinos and the Americans, who risked and even gave their lives in order to rescue us. May God bless these men in their ongoing efforts. During our ordeal, we were repeatedly lied to by the Abu Sayyaf and they are not men of honour. They should be treated as common criminals. We support all efforts of the government in bringing this men to justice. I return to the States this morning, to rejoining my children and to put my life back together. Part of my heart will always stay with the Filipino people. Thank you" 7. Journalists to Gracia Burnham in wheelchair leaving lounge STORYLINE: Recently freed American hostage Gracia Burnham left the Philippines on Monday to meet her three children in Kansas. Before leaving, she held a news conference at the airport and spoke about her ordeal. Burnham was shot in the right thigh during the rescue mission and was brought to the airport in a wheelchair with her right leg propped up. She smiled on arrival but her voice cracked and she appeared near tears as she delivered harsh words for her captors and praise and thanks for her rescuers and supporters. Burnham, who suffered a year of poor diet and frequent shootouts in the jungles of the southern Philippines, said her captors were "not men of honour" and should be treated as "common criminals". The 43-year-old was rescued on Friday when Philippine soldiers ambushed her kidnappers, members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group. Her husband, Martin, and Filipino hostage Ediborah Yap were killed in the two-hour shootout. The Burnhams had been working as missionaries in the Philippines for 16 years when they were abducted on May 27 last year from a resort island where they were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. The body of Martin Burnham, who was 42, is being examined at a US military base in Japan to determine whether he was shot by captors or rescuers during the firefight in thick jungle. The body of Yap, a 45-year-old Filipino nurse taken hostage days after the Burnhams to treat the guerrillas' wounded, was received in her small Christian town of Lamitan Sunday on the Philippines' predominantly Muslim southern island of Basilan, an Abu Sayyaf base. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...