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them exactly what happened. She doesn’t wait for an answer, but continues.
    “You were on your way back to the base when you ran into fog thicker than you have ever seen before. You managed to land using instruments, when you couldn’t raise anyone in the tower. The fog was so thick you decided to sleep in the plane because you had no idea where to go to get to the buildings. When you woke up the fog was lifted, but nothing looked familiar anymore. You decided to look around to see if you are indeed where you think you are. My guess is, that happened last night.”
    They are both astonished that Sara knows so much about them. They ask what is going on, everything seems like it is unreal except us. Sara asks them if they would show us the place that they landed their plane, and then we will explain everything to them. They say they will be happy to, but for us not to be too surprised if they decide to leave when we get back to the plane. They are shocked when we get to the runway and there is no plane like theirs anywhere. The runway is destroyed, there’s no way anyone could land a plane on it during the day, much less in the dark, in a heavy fog. The young lady Jenna has to sit down she is so shocked, she asks us what is going on. We explain about ourselves and how we came to be here. Something told me to bring a newspaper with me, but there are several in the building that acted as a terminal for the base.
    When they read about the neutron technology, James and Jenna become very interested and start asking us questions faster than we can answer. That is if we knew the answers to the questions. Finally they say they have to go to their quarters to get their clothes and some other belongings. Then they will be ready to come back with us. We go to the location they direct us to and there is nothing there, it is a field at the edge of the base. Jenna is the practical one of the two. She says in that case lets go to the Base Exchange so she can get some civilian clothes and other necessities. We were going to go there anyway, so we all go there to see what we can find. There is a very large selection of tee shirts and jeans as well as other clothes and other items. I find a display of knives and see that they have the K-Bar knives, which were the soldier’s best friend for generations. Between Gary and me we take all of the knives in the display and go into the stock room where we find several more cases of them.
    There is way too much stuff here that we can use not to at least try to get another truck or two running. We go to the motor pool and find some very nice trucks, but the weather here on the coast has not been good for them. Jenna says she knows where we can find some trucks in decent shape. She leads the way back to where the airplane hangars are and we find a couple really nice twenty-six foot covered trucks. There is a compressor in the hanger that Sara and Gary have running in no time and luckily the tires hold air. While they were working on the tires Jenna and James were working on the motors getting them to turn over. Finally we have them running and head back to the Base Exchange, where we proceed to load one of the trucks. We leave enough room to go back to the armory and gather up as much ammunition and guns as we can get into the truck. It is almost dark when we leave the base, but we want to get at least part way back before we camp for the night.
    We decide to take a different route back, but still going through the deserted city we came through on our way here. It’s a good thing we do, because we find two women and three children, in a small town that isn’t even on the map. They were getting desperate because their food was running out and they had no idea how to get more. The children all appear to be under five and remind me how much I miss our children. One of the women, Marla, has been without her husband for two winters and the other one, Carol, says that her husband died of a fever last