{ Part 1 } I came home from deployment three days early. My daughter wasn’t in her room.

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in the earth.

My heart stopped. At the bottom of a four-foot pit, my seven-year-old daughter stood shivering in mud-caked pajamas. Her tiny fingers clawed desperately at the dirt walls.

“Daddy?” her voice was a hollow, broken rasp.

I dropped into the hole, pulling her freezing, fragile body into my chest. She was vibrating like a tuned string about to continue reading …

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