Regardless of how anyone feels about it, the United States government is rather big on keeping secrets.

Sometimes these secrets are intended to protect the American public and its interests.

In any case, there are certainly many things that the government is involved with

are never intended to be made known to the general public.

As a soldier in the U.S. Army, I would come to discover that being in the military puts a man

that much closer to stumbling across something that he was never supposed to.

This is part two of the story of the night shift at Fort Campbell.

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories. My days and nights while stationed at Fort Campbell were a great time for me.

To say the very least, those 23 months were the most interesting part of my life.

I say interesting because although my primary occupation was in communications,

I was temporarily transferred to the military police division to work as a security guard.

Since fixing broken antennas, radios and other com gear was far from exciting, I very much enjoyed during those daytime and nighttime security patrols along the mostly quiet back roads and secluded

areas in and around the large base however i did have more than a couple what i would call

strange encounters during the conduct of these patrols one of these encounters wasn't anything

you might consider highly unusual.

Or maybe it was.

I mean no disrespect by saying that I am well aware that our government has plenty of secrets.

The world is full of unseen dangers and there are, of course, some things that are best kept under wraps

in the interest of protecting not only Americans, but those, some things that are best kept under wraps in the interest of protecting

not only Americans, but those countries with which we are allies. I'll give you an example.

One of the biggest secrets maintained by the United States government was to conceal an entire

American city from the outside world, even from fellow Americans. The city is called Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and it's actually just a few hours drive east of Fort Campbell.

...