Chicago Daily Herald, IL
For many Salvadorans, the newspaper ad seemed too good to be true: A Lincolnshire company was willing to pay experienced security guards $1,700 a month to work in Iraq.
Hundreds showed up for the interview, and few were dissuaded by the prospect of working in a nation now infamous for beheadings of foreigners by terrorist groups.
"No one lives forever," said Saturnino Hernandez Castilian, 40, the father of four children. "God says how far I am going to get. We may die here or we may die there. If we survive we are going to benefit. If we die, our family will be OK."
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