Our Story:
Kevin & Roxanne came over to us & asked how we knew Jepson & his friend Nathanial.
"We know them because they are our captors. They are also the ones that forced Nyhassa's father to work for them & forced Nyhassa to work as a translator," Ruthie told them.
"Jepson's also the one that tried to rape me & he whipped my legs with his whip. Amos walked into the room while Jepson was touching me. Amos pulled Jepson away from me, yelled for someone to get Nyhassa & then threw a blanket over my shoulders. Jepson told me that he was going to make me his & I would never see my family & friends again. Amos helped us escape. He came with Nyhassa to our cell and gave us the blueprints to he camp as well as all the information on Jepson & his pals," I said.
"Amos said that they're were other American kids in the camp, but that they had been brain-washed to act like insurgents. We saw some of them while we ate with everyone else & it didn't look like they had been brain-washed at all. On the contrary, it looked like they were only pretending to be brain-washed because they were scared of being machine-gunned to death," Katie said.
"Jepson was always watching Rachel. It's like he was fantasizing over her while he watched her. We all felt protective over her after Nyhassa brought her back to our cell, her legs all beat to hell, a blanket over he shoulders. That night, when they came to check on us, Rachel pretended to be sick & the guard came in, keys and all. Brian jumped him and slammed his fist into the back of his head. We handcuffed him to the cell wall, let ourselves out of the camp & dropped the keys in the boundary of the camp. We took off for the nearest town & took refuge in Jhezro & Kahli's orphanage," Jake said.
"When we were in the orphanage, we girls changed our names. Rachel was Rick, Ruthie was Randy, Katie was Kit, & I was Sean. They camp personnel had shaved our heads & we were starting to get some fuzz back on our heads when we started for Baghdad. When Rachel collapsed 5miles out of the town we had just come from, we thought it was from lack of food and water. We were kinda right. We fed her and she uncurled, but Brian had to carry her because she was too weak to walk," Sarah said.
"When we got to Baghdad, the doctors looked over Rachel & her cousin Hector sought us out. When Rachel was released from the Army hospital, the dogs were shipped over & we gathered them up and showed the orphans. Many of them had smiles on their faces & were running around in circles chasing the dogs. When we looked around, soldiers had stopped what they were doing to stare & were smiling. That's when Nyhassa's father told a couple soldiers that he had heard a familiar voice & when he was brought out, the cuffs were taken off of him & Nyhassa was in her fathers' arms within minutes. Nyhassa and her father told their story & he was let go. Then we got on the plane & went to Texas to pick up Hector's family & then headed to California. When we got off the plane, Ruthie's brother ran up to her & hugged her as well as pulling Rachel into the hug. People we didn't know, but Rachel & Ruthie obviously did, kept coming up to us & congratulating us on our safe return home. Then we got in the cars & went to the high school. Well you know what happened next," Brian said.