...what has happened down here on Thursday. It was a crazy day for all involved. I am very thankful a friend called me and told me I needed to leave post if I wanted off. At the time I had no idea what was going on. I had been watching a movie that afternoon and Cooper was napping. When she called, I about fell over, I was extremely scared. She had told me that it was at the PX, which is maybe 1 1/2 miles from my house. Then I just got everything, and left my house, headed to school to pick up Ciarrah.
After pickup I went to my Jess' house. Where we continued to watch what was going on. It wasn't til about 7pm I had heard that they were letting people back on, so I packed up the kids and headed out. We sat at a stand-still for almost an hour and a half. Then finally we got moving.
That is when I saw something that I have never seen except in pictures. There were at least 5 humvees and a lot of soldiers weapons in hand standing at the gate. I almost lost it. As soon as I got through the gate I called me mom. Begging her to calm me down. I couldn't believe what I had just seen, we are in American on an army post, I would have expected to see that in a foreign country, but not were I live.
That next day we didn't leave the house. I was pretty scared to leave the house. After what had happened the day before, I didn't feel safe. I know everyone was doing everything they could to keep everyone safe, but I didn't matter.
As Sunday rolled around I decided to leave the house. So I was driving on the highway, past the on-post, off-post housing and then I saw soldiers with weapons and humvees at every exit/entrance. It caught me off guard.
Then as Monday rolled around, I drove by an on-post school, and I saw 2 or 3 soldiers with weapons standing at the entrance of the school. That frightened me. I mean how in the world are you going to explain to a very young child what is going on. I am thankful that Ciarrah didn't have to see that. I couldn't even imagine how I would be able to explain to my 4 year old, why a man with a gun is standing at her school, and to get her to believe me, yah right.
Obviously things have changed down here. Which is a good thing when something like this happens. You see it on the tv, but you never expect it be this close to home.
Although I was grateful Michael was not home yet, because he could have been where the man was shooting people. That is where they do all of their stuff to get them up to date with everything upon their return. But Michael will be home in just a few weeks. He is scheduled to leave Iraq on Cooper's 1st birthday, then it will only be a matter of days til he is home again.
Other than the incident last week, we are hanging on, barely some days. I can't wait til he is home with us again.
I hope everyone has a great week!!
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