LAWRENCE, Mass. -- It has been almost one year since Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez, of Lawrence, was ambushed and captured in Iraq.

Families Pray For Loved Ones' Return

NewsCenter 5's Jack Harper reported that Jimenez and another member of is company are still missing.

Spc. Shaun Gopaul was with Jimenez and Pvt. Byron Fouty when they were ambushed and captured in Iraq.

"I am here to support the families," he said.

Gopaul said he still had hope that his friends would be found alive.

"I absolutely do. I pray every day. There is no doubt in my mind. I lived it. I was there," he said.

The soldiers' families hold on to hope, too.

"Hardest thing in the world is getting up every morning and praying every morning that today might be the day," said Fouty's father, Nick.

"How many POW families can you have that can related to each other like that? Because you only have three from the Iraq War and two of them are right there," said Jim Sereigo-Wareing, of New England Caring For Our Military.

"I know he is alive. It is my boy ... my only child. He is the only one that carries my name for my family," said Jimenez's father, Andy.