They pursue these goals with religious fervor, and many are descendants of American military survivors.

The poverty of some American survivors is by contrast "clearly less pressing," he said, given the public assistance and private charity available to them.

The American survivors, constituting nearly one-third of the group, have been allocated 4 percent of the settlement money.

But for the exhausted American survivors of the daylong attack there could be no rest, not yet.

The five American survivors of the final onslaught, including the wounded, were executed.

Two years later, the first American survivors' gathering was held in Washington, with 20,000 people in attendance.

Four of the American survivors are injured and are being treated in local hospitals.

Passions still run high among many of the American survivors.

But a group of American survivors is seething at the lawyer, who recently filed a bill for nearly $4.1 million for his work.

A group representing American survivors has criticized the judge, saying they have not received a fair share of the money.