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at about 730 that night we were We were spread out over the house doing

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different things, and we heard too
loud two loud explosions that from

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where I was sitting in the house, it
seemed to echo quite a bit, and it

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sounded like sounded like thunder. And
we're all we're all sitting around

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and

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mentioned to Dad that that didn't
sound like an ordinary grenade, which

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we're quite used to hearing that by
this time.

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But all of us noticed, and all of us
thought it was something different.

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We were all woken up about five
o'clock by lots of shooting and shelling

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grenades, and such started about at
five o'clock. As I already mentioned,

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it was pretty solid. Some of it seemed
to be pretty close. We estimated it

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to be about a mile away near the UN
compound that we were later to

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evacuate to, and things got more
serious. Shooting was going on near our

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house. A grenade went by. I mean, a
grenade went off. Three grenades

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actually went off right right around
our house, One right below there was

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there was people yelling and chasing
somebody telling somebody else to get

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in get in his way, Get in his way. And
then And then a grenade went off

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and we didn't know what happened after
that.

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There was shooting during the night.
At one time there was a really close

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a shooting, which sort of had us all
sitting up there, straight up with

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our hair standing on him for a few
minutes. But it was before lunch. Maybe

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we were singing. We decided, you know,
we wanted to sing some song for we

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were singing Must have been fairly
loudly, I don't know, But all of a

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sudden, then there was a great lot of
shooting right on the road, right

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above our house. You and I said, You
know, if you didn't want us to sing,

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you just all you had to do was ask us.
You didn't have to shoot at us, but

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so after that, we didn't sing anymore.
We were very, very quiet people.

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It was really hard. There seemed to be
like a lot of things we should be

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doing, but we didn't have the ability
to concentrate on any anything, but

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it was really, really hard to
concentrate. And I think now there's a lot

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of things. Every one of our The common
phrase that you hear is I wish I

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had Oh, why didn't I and, uh, really
terrified and felt like that? I

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couldn't continue living in that kind
of terror and went into our bathroom

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and knelt down beside the bathtub and
prayed enough or to really touch me

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so that I wouldn't be, you know, just
in terror and your heart just

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doesn't even beat right. And you're
going to wet your pants all the time

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and you just can't live that way. And
I really asked the Lord to help me,

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to be able to put my trust in him and
and to remove me, remove from me

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that sense of of terror. And he did
that. And it was It was a It was a

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real blessing to feel the peace and
the way the Lord did answer that

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prayer just really almost immediately
and in the night, about 12 o'clock,

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Well, I didn't know what time it was,
but in the night I woke up with a

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real, real strong sense of oppression
and terror and sort of shaking in a

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kind of shock, like the way I felt and
so scared, and I had no reason. I

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don't think I dreamed anything. And I
had no reason to be more frightened

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than I was any other time. And I
really felt like it was an attack of

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Satan that he was Really he was
telling me, You're not going to get out of

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this alive, you're going to die and
you're going and just quit praying.

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Quit believing you're not going to get
out of this alive. And I really

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prayed then and asked for Jesus
protection from the satanic attack and and

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he and my piece returned and woke up a
little bit after that. And he asked

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him what time it was. I thought, I'm
going to sit here until dawn. I

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thought I could maybe hear some birds
chirping, and it must be almost

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morning, and I'm just going to sit up
here until dawn and see, then woke

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up. So I asked him what time it was,
and he looked at his watch and said,

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It's 1245 and I just wanted to hit him
because I didn't want it to be in

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the middle of the night. I wanted it
to be morning. The night seemed so

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long and also at that time there was
there was some shooting and as near

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as we could tell, we were being shot
at the UN. Guys act like they thought

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we were being all being shot at as
well and they ran around and got in

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their positions and I think returned
fire. But we all were sitting out

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there in the grass. So we were.
Everybody said, you know, down, down and

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and hit the hit the dirt. And so we're
all laying as flat as we could,

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which is not too flat for some of us.
And Sam was laying there, too. He

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was lying between two cars, but he
laughed at us. He said he'd never

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forget the picture of seeing all these
missionary women laying there

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trying to hide behind the blade of
blade of grass in the yard. But as soon

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as it slowed down a little bit while
we got up and ran into the house. But

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then I went out and sat on the balcony
and then the tears began to come

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and they have hardly stopped, but
sometimes it gets better, and it has

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been a real comfort to me and help and
and and But I sat there and wept

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and wept for

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the people we left behind and for the
things that I should have done for

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them that I didn't do and many things
that that, uh still I are over

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painful. And but we're thankful that
God is healing. And we're thankful

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that hopefully, you know, we can learn
some lessons. I don't know how this

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will affect our lives in many other
ways, but I know that it will

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that

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OK,

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so

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so I can

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cool

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mhm command,so