Anne (Part Two of Three)

Anne heard voices, shouting, screaming.  Sirens were wailing.  The darkness was lifted, and she was pulled to her feet and onto a stretcher.  She saw other stretchers bearing people who had been close to the bomb.  She saw one man pull her kitten from the rubble of her house, and tried to reach out for her. The person pulling her stretcher toward the ambulance put her hand down.  She was put into the back of the truck and the doors closed.  They started moving, and Anne started to drift into sleep.  Someone shook her to keep her awake.  When he ambulance stopped, the doors opened and Anne was brought into the America military base hospital, where a nurse took her temperature, her blood pressure, and looked her over to see what damage was done.  Then she bandaged the cuts from window glass, and said there was nothing broken, just some bruising.  Anne felt like there was more than just some bruising.  She was led into another room by the nurse, and there were her parents.