Captain canody ran into view Some kids got hit with those rounds. They're at the front gate My legs started to move. I felt myself run after canody Wanting to go faster, but feeling an impenetrable wall between will and action We rounded a corner perhaps 50 yards away. I could see some of the 173rd airborne soldiers opening the front gate Crying distraught afghan civilians poured into the base. Then I saw the kids. I heard their screams a few thrashed and agony others lay still in their parents armsI dropped my rifle pulled my helmet off and dumped my body armor in the dirt and sprinted the last Stretch to the scene one of the interpreters was