The Invisible War Page #2

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- Get him. Get him.

- [excited babbling]

- Hey, you give me

that ball.

- Roller derby style,

get him.

- No, I got it.

[giggling]

- I met kori December 17th

of 2007.

I was on watch when

she got to the station.

And, uh, she kinda just

blew me away when she walked in.

- Cookies, right?

Is that what you ordered?

Okay, thank you.

- The command told us

that she was coming,

And there were some issues.

But we didn't-

none of the crew knew

Exactly what had happened.

And I didn't find out, um,

for a long time.

- The heart, for mommy.

Where's the heart?

He loved his job.

And it's kinda like

he gave it up for me.

- She loved the coast guard

more than I did.

She wanted to make it

a career.

But seeing how

they treated her,

I, uh, I didn't wanna

stay in.

I did it and then I did

my extra year and I got out.

I could believe what

had happened to her

And what she had

went through.

- I was stationed

in saginaw river, michigan.

I was the only female

in my section.

I had a supervisor.

It got to the place where

I'd get calls

At 3:
00 in the morning

and he'd be drunk at a bar,

Telling me

to come get him.

And I'm like,

"I can't, I'm in bed."

And he would then

threaten me.

I'd walk in from training

and he'd be

Sleeping in my bed.

When we went to

one of the higher-ups,

The chain of command,

They were all, like,

his-his drinking buddy,

And they told me just 'cause

I didn't like somebody

They weren't gonna switch me

away from this guy.

It was in the evening

around taps,

And he had unlocked the door,

and he had come in.

And he had an erection

and he

Tried to get me

to touch him.

And I took my right hand

and I pushed him in the chest.

And started to yell

for the other guys

To kinda hear me-

"hey, hey, hey."

Um, he hit me across

the left side of my face.

I remember holding

the closet thinking,

"what just happened?"

And my face hurt so bad.

[crying]

And when we went

to the command about it,

Me and this petty officer

who saw my face,

They just-

they let it wait,

'cause they didn't want

any kind of problems going on.

A couple weeks later,

I needed the key

To do my clean-up.

So I knocked on his door

and he said,

"okay, yeah, come on in here.

It's in here."

And I said, "no, no, no,

I'm gonna wait out here."

And he screamed at me

and he made me come in.

And he grabbed my arm.

[crying]

And he raped me

in his berthing area.

- Everything came

to a complete change

The day that I was raped.

- I got there in February.

Um, by April, I was drugged

and raped for the first time.

- I had, like, a cold

or pneumonia-like symptoms,

And so they sent me

to get checked out.

And while I was waiting

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