The officer was best friends of my commanding officer.

I think I hid it as much as I could,

and I tried to make myself --

I didn't believe that this happened to me.

And the one officer's wife came after me with a gun.

That was even worse than being sexually harassed.

When you have a gun put in your face

and someone is threatening to pull the trigger,

believe me, you'll tell that person anything

to get out of that situation, and I did.

And yes, I had really traumatic feelings about that,

someone putting a gun in your face.

I still can't believe, to this day, that that happened to me.

So I went AWOL to get away from it.

And the officer was best friends of my commanding officer.

I couldn't go to her and tell her,

"Well, guess what your friend did?"

So I kept it to myself for many, many years.

I never told anyone what happened to me,

including my commanding officer.

When I went AWOL and I came back and they said,

"Why did you go AWOL?"

I said, "My mother needed me,

and I knew I couldn't get any leave, so I just left."

Well, my mother didn't need me.

She never needed me all of her life,

but that was my excuse for going AWOL

to get away from the officer and his wife

because he still didn't stop tormenting me.