The school was evacuated Thursday!

I was not going do a post on this because of OPSEC. I always try to be careful because we are a military family living on a military installation. However, since it was in the paper I feel like I can post a bit about it. Sorry no pictures for you about this..not sure if that would be ok or not.

Gavin went off to school as usual on Thursday then came back around 7:55 crying because he fell down the stairs. That seems to happen a lot around here. He had banged his shin up so I iced it and gave him motrin. I got the girls and myself ready and headed out the door to take him back to school. I heard a lot of noise...kids talking and then noticed they had pulled all the kids out of the school. I figured it was just a drill so we went downstairs and found his class. His teacher said I could not leave him without signing into the office and I could not do that right then. Which I knew anyway so I let him sit with his class and we waited and waited. Eventually his teacher told me I might as well take him home because they were going to bus the kids to Camp Walker and it would be five hours before they could return to school. So I took the kids and went upstairs to tell Dee, Sheila and Crystal they might want to get their kids and called Tanya to tell her the same. Then...Nosy me grabbed my camera and went back downstairs and walked around and snapped pictures.

They had the gate to post closed and Sheila told me later they were not letting anyone on or off post. She was trying to go for a walk and was stopped. It was a little eerie. I have not worried about my safety here until this very moment. Anyway you can read the article I copied and pasted from the newspaper below. This came from Stars and Stripes

Taegu American school sports, clubs put on hold following bomb threat Activities called off until perpetrator is identified
By Franklin Fisher and Dave Ornauer, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Saturday, March 11, 2006
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea Taegu American School called off all sports and other extracurricular activities until the person behind Thursdays false bomb threat is identified, according to principal Helen Bailey.
Officials evacuated the school about 8:15 a.m. Monday. The school kindergarten through 12th grade is on the Army's Camp George in Daegu.
The cancellation was expected to affect the school's robust athletics program, most immediately soccer. Taegu American School's soccer season openers were called off. The boys and girls teams were to host Seoul Foreign on Friday and Seoul American on Saturday in Taegu's Korean-American Interscholastic Activities Conference openers.
The Army's Criminal Investigaton Command commonly called CID said a written bomb threat was found in the girls bathroom on the first floor, which houses the elementary school, an Army spokesman said.
Because of the possibility an elementary youngster was involved, CID officials deemed a criminal investigation inappropriate, said spokesman Kevin Jackson, Area IV Support Activity, Daegu. CID will leave any investigation to school officials, he said.
"We've already informed our students that if they have any information leading to the identification of the person who threatened the school, they should alert an administrator," Bailey said Thursday evening.
Military police combed the school building and grounds with working dogs trained to detect explosives. They declared the school safe several hours later, Jackson said.
Students were bused from Camp George to two nearby U.S. Army installations, where they were supervised and fed, he said.
Kindergartners through sixth-graders were bused to Camp Walker's Kelly Fitness Center; seventh- through 12th-graders went to Camp Henry's post theater.
Jackson said students returned to the school about 12:30 p.m.
At the beginning of the current school year, about 650 students were enrolled in Taegu American, Bailey wrote in a message in the school's Web site, www.taegu_un.pac.dodea.edu.
Bailey said, "We take this very seriously. It's not cost-effective for the military police and the working dogs and the rescue unit to take time out of their schedules to investigate a false bomb threat."
The shutdown of all extracurricular activities extended to practices for all sports as well as games, girls and boys soccer coaches Ed Thompson and Larry Knierem told Stars and Stripes on Thursday. "They'd phoned the schools and told us that we'd not be playing," Knierem said. "The kids have been working hard. It's a shame to see them punished for something they didn't do. But if that's the administration's call, then we'll support them. "
No make-up dates were announced Thursday for the postponed matches. Taegu American athletics director Michelle Chandler and Seoul American athletics director Donald Hedgpath said rescheduling would be difficult.
In a phone interview Thursday evening, Chandler said, "There's nowhere in the schedule for these games to be played."
Said Hedgpath by cell phone from Seoul, "There isn't much room in the schedule to make it up and that's pretty far to travel for one match. It's going to be really tight to get it in. It's unfortunate that this would happen."