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team?”
    A tear fell down her cheek.  “Yea, they were doing a race out at Road Atlanta, and one of the big sponsors was one of the firm’s clients.  I pulled some strings and got my dad a pit pass and full access to the paddocks.  You’d think he had gone to Heaven once he started walking down the row of open garages.”
    “What happened?”
    “The sponsor had received a call from our senior partner, who called the owner of the team, who then met us at the garage.  He talked to my dad for nearly thirty minutes.”  She smiled, and looked at Ian.  “They were both old gear heads and had this love of engines and racing as a common background.  Ian, this guy was worth millions, and my dad was an auto mechanic his entire life, but they still, listening to them talk, you’d think they had grown up together as equals.”
    Ian nodded, feeling his own eyes misting up.  “What happened next?”
    “The owner asked him to assist the crew chief during the race.  They gave him a uniform, walked him through the entire car, he had his own headset, the works.  He told me that it was the fourth best day of his life after marrying my mother and the births of me and my sister.” 
    “Wow,” Ian mused.  “That’s pretty awesome.”
    “Yea, it was.” She wiped another tear from her eye.  “He had a stroke in my car on the way home, and could…and could never work on anything again.”
    Ian looked at her for a second and then reached to pull her into a hug.  “I’m so sorry, Mary.”
    Mary let him hold her for a few seconds before willing herself to snap back to reality, a reality that existed without her mother, her father, her sister, or her lover, as they were all vaporized by the nuclear attack on Atlanta.
    “He was happy on that day,” she said, stepping back from Ian, smearing one last tear away, and effectively putting an end to the discussion.  “Now, what are we supposed to be looking for?”
    Ian cleared his throat and turned back to the scene below them.  “I’m not really sure. I just want to see what is between us and where we are going.”
    “Where are we going?  You never told us.”
    “The Anniston Army Depot.”
    “Why?”
    “Because I’m hoping that soldiers heed the president’s advice and sought out their closest base to volunteer to help.”
    “You really think people are going to do that?”  Mary shook her head.
    “And you don’t?”
    “No.  Not when I’m needed to protect my family first.  Think of how many people have died in America since the attack, Ian.”
    He looked at her for more.
    “All of the airplanes, the cars, the buses, the trains, they all stopped running and smashed into something.  Most of them just stopped, but a large portion of them exploded on impact or took out populated areas.  People have been without running water for almost two weeks.  Food is not being delivered to stores anymore, and the pathetic response from our government is, well…pathetic!  Ian, this is the new reality… People are separated from their families by hundreds if not thousands of miles, and there is no one to help them but themselves.”  She stopped talking long enough to think.  “The only reason I am alive is because of you and your skill and your stubbornness to not give up.  If you and Bob were serious about this militia working, then you will need to become an even bigger leader than you already are.”  She turned to look at the throngs that were below them.  “There are thousands, no, millions of people that need that kind of leadership right now.”
    Ian absorbed the pep talk peppered with critique.  He smirked, thinking that he was the one that was supposed to be doing the training.  Not the other way around.
     
     
     

 
     
     
    CHAPTER 6
     
     
     
    Leah awoke to the sound of her dog thumping her tail on the ground.  Daisy only wagged at people she knew.
    “Grace and the others are here,” Mary whispered towards Ian and Leah’s makeshift
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