What would it feel like; if you learned that a compulsory labor camp had been set up in the hills of your state? More interesting, your father was one of the thousands captured and held. My mother told me this story and most of the names where what she remembered. This sets the scene.
Not anything but silence, no one dared to enter the region that swallowed up their loved ones. Nothing made sense as the wives, mothers, girlfriends and sweethearts began to realize the impact of that morning raid. Here was a country that had just overcome a brief chapter of freedom and like the feelings of old, nothing made sense
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri
She never felt safe at home as a young girl, and didn't understand why when she finally escaped she wasn't safe in the big wide world either ...effectively jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
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