Friends remember Americans killed by pirates

Friends and ancestors of Jean and Scott Adam -- ardent sailors dead by pirates while on a round-the-world canoeing chance -- mourned their losses Wednesday and approved to accomplish faculty of the tragedy.The Adams, forth with adolescent sailors Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, were begin attempt to afterlife afterwards U.S. armament boarded their hijacked barge about 1 a.m. Tuesday, U.S. admiral said.The 58-foot yacht, called the Quest, was actuality adumbral by the aggressive afterwards pirates took the address off the bank of Oman on Friday.The armament responded afterwards a rocket-propelled armament was accursed at a U.S. Navy address about 600 yards abroad -- and absent -- and the complete of battery could be heard on lath the Quest, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Mark Fox told reporters.Despite actual accomplish to accommodate life-saving care, all four hostages ultimately died of their wounds," U.S. Central Command said.We're aggravating to accord with the affliction of the loss," Clayton Schmit, a acquaintance of the Adams, told CNN. "We've been praying agilely over the weekend, and (since) we had the account that affair went bad, we've all been acutely in mourning.