Date: 4/7/2020
By WhiteMist17
So I was being held in this bunker with a friend. They were limiting food and supplies and rationing with a hand. I brought up to the officer in charge that they should have more rations being that they were a part of the Russian army. At first he was angry telling me to be quiet. Time passed and as rations stopped coming, he started to believe me. We were all very hungry and I opened up the freezer and said let’s start using what we have . Though I was a captive, I rose in rank and they put me in charge over the women. This bunker was close to the Czars palace. You could see it from the bunker. All of a sudden things get quiet. And the soldier in charge says that’s not right! They listen and wait. At this point it seems like I’m married to one of the soldiers like he’s my husband even though it didn’t seem that way at first and now it’s like that’s the way it was the whole time. So the soldier in charge says I’m gonna look outside the bunker, keep in mind he was never allowed outside of it in the first place but had orders to stay in it. He opens up the door and stepped out and looked around. It’s eerily quiet. The noise of the war had ceased. All of a sudden soldiers come rushing out of the czars palace, shooting! These were their own guys. And they saw him. He gets back in the bunker and makes quick orders to lock things down but knows that the soldiers can get in, so He makes orders for the women to stay there and he gets his soldiers and they go out this window in the back. One of them is in a wheelchair and he’s like what am I gonna do and they pull him out and say don’t worry we will carry you! They make a mad dash away, looking for help. The rumor is that soldiers inside the palace shot the czar. The girls and I lock the bunker down and wait. Soldiers are trying to get in and all of a sudden there is help from some other army. The Soldier in charge lost a few of his men on the run. But the army that rescued them was the army they had been fighting. My husband and I get free and we are driving trying to make sure they don’t change their minds and recapture us before we leave. We make it to the airport and we are choosing between economy class middle class ( though it was called something else) and luxury class flights. We decided on the middle class. We didn’t have the money for luxury class, but had the extra to spend to get something nicer than economy. I was sitting there waiting with him and I had Tylenol and headache pills and something else that he was taking when Katie showed up and asked if I had any Tylenol I asked her what she was doing there as I gave her some. She said I was in the bunker with you and acted as though I should remember. I said I don’t remember seeing you there and she said I was in the back. We fly home. And we get home and we have a little trouble adjusting to regular life especially my husband. We end up driving by the junior high, and I say we’re gonna be all right aren’t we? Eodair