I am not looking forward to what we have to do this morning. I am worried that the rest of the gang had snuck back during the night and were waiting on us to come out but its much more than that. I am not sure how I am going to hold up if we find young kids out there. I hope I never become so jaded that I can look at the body of a young person and think oh well they asked for it.
I fixed breakfast for everyone but I can't eat this morning. My stomache is churning over the thought of what we are about to do. I have managed to keep two cups of tea down. Oh how I wished I had a cigerette right now. I decided not to stock up on cigerettes before SHTF thinking at least we would then have no choice but to quit. But right now I could really use one to help calm my nerves. It is a good thing that I didn't stock up any way since we now have 7 ex smokers in the house. Everyone of us smoked right up till the lights went out and for a few days or a couple of weeks after but once what we had run out that was it. It would have been rough on the kids and the non smokers to have that many people smoking in the house at one time.
Well breakfast is over and everyone is getting ready to head out so I guess I had better get ready myself. We are going to take a couple of laundry baskets with us to put all the stuff we collect from the bodies in. It's cold out and we are going to be out there for some time so I got two pair of my thermal underwear and gave Jen a pair to wear and I put on the other. They guys all have heavy hunting coveralls they are wearing thanks to Dave.
We get outside we start on the bodies that are half way between our house and the house next door to our neighbor's house. Jen and I bend down and start stripping the bodies of anything we feel we can use. So far the bodies we are finding are all people around the age of 20 -30. I can handle that. They were old enough to know what they were doing.
The people next door to our neighbor must have been watching us because soon they come out and start stripping the bodies nearest their house. When we got the first basket full of knives, guns, ammo, bats, hammers and other weapons, Jen ran it to the house and grabbed another basket. We had not even checked half the bodies yet and that first basket was over flowing. This gang had meant business and they had come heavily armed. We were finding home made torches like the ones you see in tv shows, lots of matches and lighters, glass bottles filled with fuel and pockets with rags in them. Finding those led us to believe they had plans on torching houses they could not gain entry to by other means. We decided to gather those items to in case we could use them at some point.
We were even finding cigerettes and cigars on the bodies. Oh how I wanted one of those cigerettes but I had not had one on over 4 months so I was fighting the urge to start in smoking again. The guys wanted to know if they could have them so I agreed to it as long as they smoked outside. I didn't want them smoking around the kids, the non smokers and John and Dave. John and Dave both had severe COPD and I didn't want them smoking again to cause them to get worse.
We worked our way past the front of our house, down the side and around back. When we got around the back the neighbors behind us was out side doing the same thing we were to the bodies that were laying in their yard. The man across the street from them was helping them. I told the guys to leave them the bodies in the street so they could collect more weapons and we would handle the bodies that were laying in our yard and in Bryan's yard.
By the time our group was done we had filled 4 big laundry baskets full of things and had checked 27 bodies. All were dead. Four of the bodies could not have been more than 14-15 years old. I helped check them but had tears flowing down my face the whole time I did. It was one of the hardest things I ever have done.
After we were done collecting all we could and the baskets were safely in the house Jen and I took over guard duty while the guys worked to pull the bodies around the house and placed them in Bryan's yard where the kids could not see them. Our neighbors seeing what we were doing did the same. They had young children in their houses to. Then Mike pulled the truck up to the bodies and they started loading them in the back. The neighbor behind us did the same with his truck and so did the people in the house that was attacked first. Once all but 4 of the bodies had been loaded they all went off together in a line to dump them in the cemetery. When they came back Mike had me go out and check to see for myself that the 4 bodies they were going to hang from the over pass was all older guys in their 20's and 30's. He had seen how I was having such a hard time when I was checking the young bodies for weapons and such. He wanted to make sure I knew they would not hang children. I felt a tiny bit better was he assured me.
As soon as I had seen the bodies for myself they loaded them up in the truck, grabbed some rope and painted a couple of signs with warning on them then left to follow through with their plans. They were gone about a hour. When they came back all they said was the job was done and they didn't say any more about it. We knew then they were just as bothered about what they did as we were.
I fixed breakfast for everyone but I can't eat this morning. My stomache is churning over the thought of what we are about to do. I have managed to keep two cups of tea down. Oh how I wished I had a cigerette right now. I decided not to stock up on cigerettes before SHTF thinking at least we would then have no choice but to quit. But right now I could really use one to help calm my nerves. It is a good thing that I didn't stock up any way since we now have 7 ex smokers in the house. Everyone of us smoked right up till the lights went out and for a few days or a couple of weeks after but once what we had run out that was it. It would have been rough on the kids and the non smokers to have that many people smoking in the house at one time.
Well breakfast is over and everyone is getting ready to head out so I guess I had better get ready myself. We are going to take a couple of laundry baskets with us to put all the stuff we collect from the bodies in. It's cold out and we are going to be out there for some time so I got two pair of my thermal underwear and gave Jen a pair to wear and I put on the other. They guys all have heavy hunting coveralls they are wearing thanks to Dave.
We get outside we start on the bodies that are half way between our house and the house next door to our neighbor's house. Jen and I bend down and start stripping the bodies of anything we feel we can use. So far the bodies we are finding are all people around the age of 20 -30. I can handle that. They were old enough to know what they were doing.
The people next door to our neighbor must have been watching us because soon they come out and start stripping the bodies nearest their house. When we got the first basket full of knives, guns, ammo, bats, hammers and other weapons, Jen ran it to the house and grabbed another basket. We had not even checked half the bodies yet and that first basket was over flowing. This gang had meant business and they had come heavily armed. We were finding home made torches like the ones you see in tv shows, lots of matches and lighters, glass bottles filled with fuel and pockets with rags in them. Finding those led us to believe they had plans on torching houses they could not gain entry to by other means. We decided to gather those items to in case we could use them at some point.
We were even finding cigerettes and cigars on the bodies. Oh how I wanted one of those cigerettes but I had not had one on over 4 months so I was fighting the urge to start in smoking again. The guys wanted to know if they could have them so I agreed to it as long as they smoked outside. I didn't want them smoking around the kids, the non smokers and John and Dave. John and Dave both had severe COPD and I didn't want them smoking again to cause them to get worse.
We worked our way past the front of our house, down the side and around back. When we got around the back the neighbors behind us was out side doing the same thing we were to the bodies that were laying in their yard. The man across the street from them was helping them. I told the guys to leave them the bodies in the street so they could collect more weapons and we would handle the bodies that were laying in our yard and in Bryan's yard.
By the time our group was done we had filled 4 big laundry baskets full of things and had checked 27 bodies. All were dead. Four of the bodies could not have been more than 14-15 years old. I helped check them but had tears flowing down my face the whole time I did. It was one of the hardest things I ever have done.
After we were done collecting all we could and the baskets were safely in the house Jen and I took over guard duty while the guys worked to pull the bodies around the house and placed them in Bryan's yard where the kids could not see them. Our neighbors seeing what we were doing did the same. They had young children in their houses to. Then Mike pulled the truck up to the bodies and they started loading them in the back. The neighbor behind us did the same with his truck and so did the people in the house that was attacked first. Once all but 4 of the bodies had been loaded they all went off together in a line to dump them in the cemetery. When they came back Mike had me go out and check to see for myself that the 4 bodies they were going to hang from the over pass was all older guys in their 20's and 30's. He had seen how I was having such a hard time when I was checking the young bodies for weapons and such. He wanted to make sure I knew they would not hang children. I felt a tiny bit better was he assured me.
As soon as I had seen the bodies for myself they loaded them up in the truck, grabbed some rope and painted a couple of signs with warning on them then left to follow through with their plans. They were gone about a hour. When they came back all they said was the job was done and they didn't say any more about it. We knew then they were just as bothered about what they did as we were.