I kind of went to a combat mode.

I was outside talking to my sister and a car drove by

and these guys were all staring at me and to me it was a threat.

I ended up going into my house

and I still contemplating about that.

I looked back outside and the vehicle was driving

by my house again and stopped and so I went outside

and chased them down the road.

Then later I kind of went to a combat mode,

went up onto my deck and I was laying prone up there waiting

for this vehicle again and it was at night time

as they came down the road.

They turned out their lights and coasted for awhile.

And so in my head I'm thinking, "OK, I got to get

out of my house this way, come around, take the guys

out before they get mean."

Come to find out it was just a boy trying to ask my 17 year old

to a dance at the high school, you know.

So for her, she thought it was kind of funny, but for me it was,

it took me about an hour to calm back down from, you know,

and I had to explain to her, hey,

those kids are pretty lucky 'cause, you know,

if she wouldn't have said, "Hey, these guys are calling me

and telling me you're freaking them out,"

then I probably would have done something crazy that day.

It's just simple things

that probably a civilian wouldn't understand or pick

up on to where a combat soldier gets alerted to it and they go

on high alert and turn into combat mode.

You know, it was kind of scary

for me 'cause I knew exactly what I was planning on doing

to these guys in this truck.