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When she responded playfully that she had more than a second for him, he
continued.
"Look, I'm going to take off a little early this afternoon and will probably
beat you home. What do you say you leave dinner to me. I'll makesome Lasagna
and it ll be ready when you get to the house? I m onto something new and I
want to talk it through over dinner and afterward & what do you say?
Elizabeth did not hesitate.
"Sure sweetie, that sounds fine to me, you bake a mean Lasagna.
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You know I've always got the listening ear whenever your involved How about
six thirty ? Okay, bye
'til then
Chapter 2
The infidel will either bow to the Truth, or he shall bow to the sword. The
Prophet
September 29, 2007, 23:02 PST
Hill overlooking A Canal Head Gates & the
Dam
Klamath Lake, OR
The men watched over their two charges very carefully. The weather was cool
but dry, the air crystal clear with not a cloud in the sky. Off to the west
and south was the dam, a relatively small structure that held back the immense
expanse of Klamath Lake and generated electricity critical to northern
California.
To the north were the A Canal head gates that allowed irrigation water to feed
the entire Klamath basin, which stretched into northern California down past
Tule Lake. The variety of crops being produced in that basin, as was the case
with every major agricultural valley in the western United States and
throughout the rest of country, was now critical to America s ability to
remain agriculturally independent during the war.
After two years of that war, America had re-established its agricultural
prowess. From the Rio Grande to Florida, from the Central Valley of California
to the Midwest and throughout the Intermountain West, vegetables, fruits,
grains, feed and crops of every variety imaginable were being produced in
record quantities. The American farmer was literally feeding the allied world,
and had risen to that challenge after overcoming significant difficulty in
getting both land and machinery back into production. As with
America s industrial and manufacturing base, throughout the 1990 s and into
the 21stcentury much of
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America s commercial agricultural production had been outsourced to take
advantage of the lower costs available in the world market. Now the folly of
the magnitude and extent to which those practices had been applied was finally
being overcome & and the ultimate cost had been paid in lost lives and lost
territory. Few people were as aware of these facts as they related to
agriculture as were the men of the local Home Guard unit who were on watch
this night above the A-Canal head gates and dam near
Klamath Falls. They had experienced first hand the effects of being
completely idled in the summer of
2001 and had already known what it took to get back into production in terms
of money, effort and commitment long before the war ever began.
On top of the ridge, Stan, Darren, Jake and Joseph scanned the area around
each structure carefully with their night vision equipment. Stan and Darren
were watching the head gates, Jake and Joseph were
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watching the dam. Closer to each structure, patrols consisting of two men each
were roving. Darren s younger brother, John and another local man, William,
were near the head gates while another two men were patrolling close to the
dam. Each of the groups had radios that allowed them to communicate with one
another and with the Klamath County Sheriff s department. All of these men,
and the other patrols out this evening around Klamath County were a part of
America s Homeland Defense, Home Guard. All were armed with M-14 rifles and
all had undergone training to allow them to conduct the surveillance of the
county s critical infrastructure. Those duties did not include full police
powers. They were simply watching over the infrastructure and reporting
suspicious activity to the local Sheriff s dispatch. They were only empowered
to interdict and use their weapons in the case of imminent attack or life
threatening danger. In over two years of patrolling, there had never been so
much as a suspicious report out of the teams here above the Lake & but that
was about to change.
Well Stan, another evening watching over the source of our livelihoods.
4 AM is not going to come soon enough for me, remarked Darren as he scanned
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