Day of Wrath by William R. Forstchen

Author:William R. Forstchen [Forstchen, William R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc.
Published: 2014-08-17T06:00:00+00:00

Inside Joshua Chamberlain Middle School

The gunfire ceased in the room across the hall; Bob could hear muffled child-voiced moans and cries, heartbreaking, so many calls for “mommy” as they died. Mommy, who, when they were at the arrogant age of twelve and thirteen, was a source of embarrassment and eye rolling when an attempt was made to kiss and hug them in public, but in a moment of terror, of pain, of dying? It was a cry to a mother for comfort, to hold them and to ease the pain as they died, and it steeled Bob for what he had to do. He was so shocked by the anguish of it all that he first had to wipe tears from his eyes, silently cursing himself for his moment of frozen inaction and fear.

How could any man, any human being inflict such suffering upon children? He could hear the triumphal calls to their Allah echoing down the hallway and it filled him with rage and now the motivation to move aggressively and fight back. All the years of political correctness, all the appeals from the nation’s leaders to extend a hand of friendship to all… If really true, where was the righteous anger now? In the same way Christians by the tens of thousands rose up in anger against the evils of the Westboro Church that harassed the families of dead soldiers returning home in caskets from the Middle East, and taunted gays and anyone who was different?

He had enough of an interest in history to recall, even in these few seconds, Winston Churchill’s sarcastic response and warnings against the appeasement of his nation’s leader in 1938 and the terrible price it would eventually cost Great Britain and the free world.

And that price had now come due again, literally in the corridors of his school, his daughter’s school, and he was at the very tip of the spear of that price. And now he prayed that in the next few seconds he could do something, anything, to slow them down, to buy time and, if need be, to die, to die well doing what was right.

He checked on Patty, who was guiding her charges up and out of the shattered window, encouraging each to run the moment they hit the ground. To his horror, he saw two of them drop, caught in the gunfire raging outside the building, but the others were making it through. It did not take a trained expert to know that a moving target was infinitely harder to hit than one cowering in a corner or lying prone on the floor. If some of them were getting through, it was better than waiting here for certain death.

Patty’s gaze caught his eye as she helped the last child up to the window before climbing out herself. She was crying, staring straight at him.

“God be with you, Bob,” she mouthed the words, nearly silent, then turned to drop out the window behind the last of her children.

There were

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