26. I felt my eyes tear up. I knelt down next to her and cried until her soft hand gently touched my face and pushed me away, and I saw her skin was ghostly pale and even her eyes were going pale and she said in a weak voice “Leave me, get everyone else to safety and I’ll hold them off as long as I can.” And hearing here total hopelessness surged furry into me and I straighten up and fired a full clip into the terrorists. And when I emptied my gun I looked down at her again and held her head gently in my hands, and in that moment everything else seemed to fade, the sound of gun fire seemed far away, the shouting people seemed to move a little slower, then a realization dawned on me, I love her and no amount of denial could change that, I was gonna save her or die trying.
“I love you, and there is nothing in this world or the next that could get me to leave your side, especially in times like this, and if it comes down to it, I’ll die by your side with a smile on my face, happy of the time I did get to spend with you.” I said through the sobs that were racking my body. And then I did something I had never before believed in, I lowered my head and prayed to god. I asked him for guidance in these trivial times, I asked to help and put his blessing on Kelsey, the love of my life, and I asked him to send help, any kind of help so we could get these people back to safety, all of them. And as if in answer, somewhere in the distance I heard the steady thrumming of helicopter rotors.
I couldn’t help a cheer of triumph as I saw the kiddies turn and run with seventy of my best close behind, all that was left after their shooting and bombardment of the office, with another 200 on their way from our barracks away from the school, they will simply be coming to help take the kiddies fort. Sure their bus had done its damage, but now they were on the run and as I walked out the door and saw them pinned down with three injured now and their commander kneeling on the ground next to one of the bodies. I raised my hand and commanded the men to hold their fire, I stepped forward and as I was beginning to tell them to surrender when I felt the blood drain from my face as I heard the sound of helicopter rotors getting closer by the second.
24. We were flying in from the air base to a small rural area where the local school has supposedly come under attack and we were sent to investigate in a fully loaded apache helicopter, when I heard through the head phones. “Sergeant Baxter we’re nearing the location, but the cloud covers to thick to get a good aerial view from more than 300 feet.”
“Then take us down to 300 to get a good look at that school.” And as I said it I felt the helicopter start to drop altitude. But before we got to 300 the cloud cover parted and we saw a gruesome scene before us, at least 50 men standing, clearly pointing guns at a dozen people with blood and bodies everywhere. I pulled out my binoculars and looked to see that the dozen was 11 kids with three wounded, one kneeling over an injured body, and the others forming up around the wounded ready to fight to the death. I also noticed that the 50 or so men pointing their guns at the kids all wore turbans and had dark skin, one of them was standing in front of them holding his hand up, clearly their leader. As I focused my binoculars I noticed that I recognized the leader, it was Al-Kini, Osama bin Laden’s right hand man. “Go low and fire at will at the larger group of men, they’re Taliban, and Al-Kini is with them and they’re about to kill those kids, they need help go, go, go.” I yelled into the mic and heard a stir of commotion behind me in the back of the helicopter as the men loaded their assault rifles and got their ropes and harness’s ready to quickly descent onto the battlefield, something that the rangers had become pros at over the years. Just as I was readying my own harness in the passenger seat I heard the machine guns on the helicopter roar to life as we swept lower and eventually hovered over the kids, we all jumped and the pilot continued to fire an unrelenting volley of bullets into the terrorist lines as they began to scatter and run.
25. I was still kneeling beside Kelsey when the clouds dissipated revealing a fully loaded apache helicopter that opened fire on the terrorist lines, and I felt tears of pure relief rolling down my cheeks and I let them go. I saw no embarrassment in being so relieved to see an army helicopter coming to our rescue and ending this madness. We’ve only been fighting for four days now, but it has felt like a life time in itself. And as I stood up drawing my trusty Colt .45 six armed men dropped from the helicopter as it continued to wreak havoc on the terrorists which were now running from the sight of the helicopter, Al-Kini was not among the pale, unmoving faces that I saw lying on the blood soaked ground. The soldiers all wore the patch of the Army Rangers and ran over to us. One in particular walked up to me and put a reassuring hand on my shoulder as two of the men gathered up Kelsey and started back to our base of command. “She’s gonna be alright, she looks like a strong one.” He said
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Terror in school
ActionA couple of ordinary kids going about their average day at school, but that all changed when a terrorist group broke into their school and were ready to kill them all in order to set up a head quarters in the U.S.A., so they could ready an attack on...
