90 Minutes in Nairobi
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Shooting has erupted within the mall, machine gun bullets and gun shots are ringing out. Screams of terror as people are shot. Your heart is jumping in your chest, adrenaline pumping, fear and panic seizing you.
Ordinary people caught in the midst of the terror attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya! This is true story of survival, love, and life.
For the next 90 minutes we experience, fear, hope, sorrow, panic, and love. Follow our flight to survive, how our lives have changed, and how nothing will ever be the same
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90 Minutes in Nairobi - Francis Strazzella
90 Minutes in Nairobi
An extraordinary event,
In an ordinary life.
Francis Strazzella
90 Minutes in Nairobi
Copyright © 2014 Francis Strazzella
Cover Art: Nairobi by Susan Strazzella
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To my wife, Susan, my best friend and the love of my life, she made me who I am today.
and
…To my pal, Vince Zandri, for his help and encouragement.
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Prologue
It is with trepidation that I begin this story. To write, it is something that I have always wanted to do, and now, I needed to do.
This story is not an autobiography, nor is it an historical fiction. It’s a story about an ordinary life, nothing exciting,
It is a story about good and evil, fear, hope, family, friends, fate, God, faith and most assuredly, about love.
It’s maybe a commentary about the world and what has happened to it; it is not the world I grew up in.
It is not a commentary on terrorism, or politics, although those topics will probably be noticed as a transparent undertone.
It is also about choices; and the life that revolves, and evolves around those choices.
It is about a mere 90 minutes of a life; a minuscule, indistinguishable fraction, really, out over 32 million minutes, (so Far).
But most of all, it is about what you learn from experiencing an horrific event, about yourself, about brave souls, about friends, about those you love, and what matters.
Humor me; laugh with me, cry with me, learn with me.
Chapter 1
…and now it begins
12:38PM – Nairobi, Kenya
…and now it begins, and I thought, maybe ends. Explosion. Screaming. Panic. A grenade, unquestionably something the average person doesn’t hear every day. I had a fleeting thought; wow, that was really loud. I look for Susan. She followed directions and is crawling under a car bumper, also something you don’t see every day. I thought this is it; we are going to die, not the way I thought. A really frightening thought, a little surreal. Not panicked, but accepting. You have an image of yourself alone, old and maybe sick, not being shot in a mall parking garage in Nairobi, Kenya. I felt surprisingly calm. However, deep humankind genetics jolt me alert; flight or fright, time