Amanda Hamilton

Knock on the Door- An Army Brat Story

It was 2005. My mother, older brother Aaron, and my step father had just moved from central Kentucky to Fort Drum, New York in the middle of December. I remember how much the temperature changed each time we got out of my moms Ford Explorer each stop on the 16 hour long drive up. When we pulled out of our driveway in Somerset the temperature gauge (which we considered very high tech in a vehicle at the time) had read 43 degrees, when we arrived at Fort Drum, it was displaying a brisk -17.