November 4th marks the 30-year anniversary of when the Iran Hostage Crisis began. KOLO 8 News Now spoke with a woman who was married to one of the hostages. And according to her, this is an experience she'll never forget.

She says her two young girls were two and four-years-old at the time, and to this day it still haunts them. The date was November 4th, 1979, that's when Iranian revolutionaries stormed the United States embassy.

Elisa Wood’s husband at the time, Michael Moehler, was the head of the Marine Security Guard, and one of the first to be taken hostage.

Woods says the hostages moved from prison to other prisons in Iran. And conditions were terrible. “They had to listen to men women children being tortured in there just screaming.”

There was a total of 53 hostages, for 444 long days. Wood says for her, the worst part was not knowing what was happening to her husband.

“They had Russian Roulette played with them, they lined ‘em up in front of execution squads...there were no bullets but they never knew, they never knew what was actually going to happen to them.”

At the time before the crisis, relations between Iran and the United States were quickly deteriorating.

“Iran was calling us the devil infidels. If there would've been a tornado it would've been the American devil.”

And then was what Iranian revolutionaries describe as their breaking point--President Carter allowed the Shah, an exiled Iranian leader who many Iranians said was a cruel dictator, into the U.S. for medical care.

Since the embassy takeover, Iran commemorates the anniversary with a rally as the crowd chants, “Death to America!”

But not everyone shares that sentiment. Unprecedented numbers are speaking out against their own government, like when people protested the re-election of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Who, coincidentally, Wood says was one of the captors and torturers during the Iran Hostage Crisis.

“I know some hostages who identified him. They destroyed lives there were so many lives that were irrevocably changed.”

Wood wants to stress that her feelings of anger toward Iran are toward the government, not the people themselves.

And while Wood and her ex-husband Mike Moehler have since divorced, Wood says she and the hostages’ families have to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Wood says they continue to cope with what happened 30 years ago…every day.