Shattered Illusions: An Awakening - Part I - Reaching Out

[Gary Hunt]

Shattered Illusions
An Awakening

August 31, 2011

Committee of Digital Correspondence

Amelia Foxwell, Correspondent

 

Part I - Reaching Out

This is a story about an awakening -- an epiphany.  It is about an everyday housewife and mother of two young boys in middle America who lived the simple dream of family.  Like so many, she believed her family was safe and secure in a world that was essentially good and just, where bad guys were easy to spot and good guys wore badges.  It is also about the lasting effects of that event-- the epiphany -- that brought her out of her humble life at gunpoint and into a world of danger and intimidation.  Her convictions forced her to become an outspoken voice of caring for the future of her country and the world she would leave to her children.

The following is an email conversation started by that woman who was searching for someone to talk to about what had occurred.  Initially, from the moment following the event, all she knew was that it involved a young man who had been camping near her family in Texas.  She later found out that man's name was Sgt. Charles Dyer.  She and her husband began to do all the research they could on Sgt. Dyer.  This research led her to my previous articles and my email address.  She had much to say and many questions.  This is the story about how Carla's awakening  began to unfold.

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From: Carla
Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:19 PM

Am looking to contact Amelia Foxwell.  Is this your email?

I saw Charles this past weekend in Stephen F. where I camped across from him.  I would like to talk to you.  The SWAT thought he was "possibly in our RV" Saturday night.

Thanks - Carla

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To: Carla
Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:24 PM

This is my email address.  You can also contact me at ***-***-****

Amelia

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Imagine you are sitting in a restaurant wondering if you should have just given a complete stranger your cell number.  Then 30 seconds after your lunch arrives, the phone rings.  43 minutes after that you realize you have intermittently been crying over your cheeseburger because you were listening to one of the most moving stories you have heard in a very long time.

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From: Carla
Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM

I think you had a good idea about writing it down.  It's odd, I want to keep my private little quiet life and shout this at the top of my lungs at the same time.  If what happened to my family were to happen to every law abiding taxpaying citizen's family in this country, there would be a revolt like none before.

I believe in the voicing the truth.  I also have massive faith.  Charles is still here.  After the SWAT incident, I truly feared for his life.  I thought they would kill him.  Texas law loves the hunt.  Those guys were amped to the max.

Carla

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After receiving this email, I forwarded it with the woman's phone number to Charles' mother and then realized I really should have asked permission first.

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To: Carla
Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:18 PM

I shared your story with his sister and his family.  They were very touched and I also forwarded your email to them.  I hope you don't mind.  They might call to say thank you, I am not sure.  Please keep in touch.  Thank you for your heart

Amelia

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From: Carla
Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:52 PM

They would be welcome to call.  I thought of trying to call them, trying to find their number..........I thought that they must be bombarded with phone calls at this time.

So many thoughts still in my head.  How this has changed me, forever.  It has changed how I view several things.  It has made me realize how many people are truly in the dark about things as I have been.  Why am I feeling so much about this............I have even thought...am I related to these people somehow?  My family moved to Marlow [next to Duncan, where the Dyer's live] in the 1940's.  I have still have distant relatives there.  I have been asking God........."why do you have me in so much thought and prayer over this"........why did I pick RV site #19?.....why was he apprehended right by my house?......

I am sure Charles is very smart, but only God could have got him through what I saw him make it through.  Truly amazing.  Had he of been taken in by the SWAT and FBI it would have been made for TV drama and violent, on their part.

Carla

 

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At this point, it began to show that this woman was realizing how important her story was to share.  I hoped her courage would be great enough to do agree to this when asked to do so.

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To: Carla
Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:41 PM

 Carla

I would love to tell your story and get the word out there I can hide your name if that is what you want but I would love to get it in your words if you can write about it for me.  I think that your story is the key to showing people who do not understand the situation that Charles and many others have endured.  I don’t want to sound like I am pressuring you but your story is real and vital and powerful.  Please let me know how you feel.

Thank you once again for your heart.

Amelia

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From: Carla
Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:55 PM

No pressure felt.  I agree with you.  I am going to do exactly what you say.  I had a long and bonding conversation with Charles's parents and sister today.  Thank you so much for making that connection for me.  I am beginning to not be worried about my name.  I am proud of who I am and who I have become and it is my God that is responsible for that.  By speaking with the family today at great length, I was able to relieve a great deal of angst and am realizing the role in this for myself, and I do believe it is to tell about my experience.  All of it.  To anyone that will hear.  My close friends met together tonight.  They too, for the past few days, read many of your articles, Charles email and a lot of what Jan had to say.  These are good praying people that are now ON IT!  I told Jan and Amy if there is ANYTHING I can do, I will.  We will be staying in touch.  His dad was so worried that it was his prayer to bring Charles back to God that may have brought this on.  I see it as prayer that worked.  He is safely back there.  He wasn't apprehended like an animal.  He wasn't taken down by a bunch of amped up bullet proof men dressed like ninja turtles.  Just one soft-spoken sheriff by himself.  I say the prayer worked.  I also believe, as an eternal optimist with faith, that Charles WILL be redeemed.  He will be getting his life back.

You know......I am just getting over that sick feeling of realizing what mob mentality EVERYONE has when the news mentions an "accused" person.  I have asked God for forgiveness of my former self, that even after being "in the know" I still might have done this.  Never again.

You know Amelia, I have begun to see his adventure last week as practically biblical in nature.  It was one man with no defenses other than his wits, against an army.  This man made it through situations that are unexplainable other than God Himself helped him.  There are several stories in the bible that tell of something like this.  I am pretty sure that Charles has great work ahead of him.  Because of what I went through, I can agree with so many of his points, if not all.  I still want to vomit of my anger of the invasion by the SWAT team.  It is so easy to let go for a minute and scream, curse, and yell about it.  It is easy to be very angry at the fact we were raped of our peace at gunpoint by the FBI then told skedaddle without so much as an explanation or an apology.  By hooking up with you - I can relieve myself of some of this anger.  Tell someone.  Somebody does care.  I am NOT ALONE............

Will be in touch - Carla

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So Carla has agreed to tell her story.  It is not a story about heroism, or even great adventure.  It is, however, a great story about an American family, and what they went through, in just a few short days.  It is their awakening.

 

End Part 1

 

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