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arrived when we did.  A few more minutes and the children would have been motherless and I would have been widowed. We had to move fast to help Neil’s family.

    Chapter 11
    "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
Richard Henry Lee
American Statesman, 1788
     
    Neil’s family consisted of a remarried and once again divorced ex-wife and a ten year old daughter.  They only lived an hour from my house.  We couldn’t afford to waste time.  As much as I needed to comfort my family, I needed to help Neil with his. The lives of my family had been saved in large part due to Neil’s help in my house.
    We parked two blocks away from the house Andrea (his ex) and Haley (his daughter) were living in.  As we came through the back yards, we could see that the house had already been breached. Rounding the corner to check the front, we saw a soldier carrying the limp body of a small girl to a Suburban. Neil fired first at the soldier carrying his daughter. The soldier went down. The two vehicle guards looked our way drawing their MP5’s in the process. Just as they were looking, I threw a flash bang grenade.  They were instantly blinded and disoriented.  I quickly followed up with a smoke grenade.  Using the smoke screen we advanced with Neil scooping up his daughter and me double-tapping each of the guards.
    Neil carried Haley behind a Suburban to check her vitals. She was breathing but completely knocked out.  It looked like the bad guys had tranquilized her.  Knowing Andrea, I was hoping they had done the same to her.  Just as that thought came to my head, we began taking fire from the second floor of the house.  The smoke screen was clearing and our position of cover was attracting bullets.  I had one more smoke grenade and used it to conceal our retreat. We made it across the street and into the neighbor’s back yard.
    Neil stayed with his daughter as I flanked the vehicles, confident that the bad guys would be coming out to them.  I set up with my Panther Long Range 308.  I waited until five bodies were clear of the front door before shooting the point man and the rear security.  One of the soldiers had Andrea.  She had been hand cuffed in the front and in his haste to take cover from the incoming fire, her captor let go of her.  She turned on him with all the rage of a momma grizzly.  She was vicious as she began attacking him with the steel hand cuffs. I could see her striking him as I engaged the remaining soldier shooting wildly in my direction. Just as I turned my scope to check on Andrea (who had been blocking any shot I could take on her captor) I heard a shot ring out. I watched as Andrea fell forward and covered the body of the soldier she had been pummeling. In his hand was a semi-automatic pistol.  As he pushed her dead weight off of him he stood up only to fall lifeless from a shot I never heard.  Neil advanced forward firing his silenced pistol until it ran dry. He dropped the pistol and gathered Andrea into his arms.
    Neil had never given up on Andrea. Everyone who knew him accepted that as the truth. As he held her, she looked into his eyes and said, “I knew you would come.”
    She smiled as she took her last breath and Neil watched her eyes become lifeless as tears streamed from his own. He held her close as he sobbed and said softly, “I always loved you.”  My heart ached for his loss. 
    Silently I went to Ha ley and held her until Neil regained his composure. We took Andrea’s body and the supplies from the bad guys and left with Haley to rejoin Mary and the kids.

    Chapter 12
    "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of