“Okay. Noah, I want you to go to the Building and Loan tomorrow and see if you can find this Stacey.”

“What do you want me to do?” Jacie asked.

“I want you to do nothing; we can’t let them suspect us. Tracy and I will stay here. If something goes wrong, which I hope doesn’t, I will take Tracy to the game so no one will find us.” We all agreed on this plan.

The next morning was Tuesday, September 1, 1980, just in case you’ve lost track of time. Noah went to the B&O to check it out. Finding no one named Stacey in the building, he returned to the house. It was four p.m. before we met in my house. “That register may say that there is a Stacey there, but I couldn’t find one!” Noah started.

“That indeed is strange. Did you see one of the other tenants, Jeanette, Emily, or Nancy?” I inquired.

“Funny, but I didn’t see a one of them either.”

“How odd. Tracy, Noah said he didn’t see a one of the tenants. Is there something going on at Nano Building and Loan that I should know about?”

“Not that I haven’t already told you.” Tracy replied.

“Interesting,” I commented. “There seems to be a conspiracy within the B&O. For some reason or another, blond secretaries are being kidnapped from their apartments. These tenants don’t realize it, and think that they were at work, and the B&O agrees.”

“Right, sounds like brainwashing to me.” Noah added.

“But why?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” Tracy responded.

“I guess I should worry about it later. Right now, I have to make sure you don’t become like the rest of them tomorrow.”

“Or Jacie.” Noah added.

“Or Jacie.” I repeated. The afternoon passed, and the night came. Jacie checked in with nothing to report. “Jacie, are you ready for tomorrow?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be, I guess.” She replied. With that the conversation ended. Everything was set for a Wednesday to remember.

The next morning, I went to Tracy’s room, and knocked on her door. “Just a minute!” The voice inside replied. Out came my girlfriend, dressed in some of the new clothes she had bought with my money. “What do you think?” She asked.

“How much did it cost?”

“Enough.”

“That much!?” We went to breakfast, and then went for a walk.

“Adam, I know that there’s nothing to be afraid of, but still. . .”

“You’re a little nervous about tonight.”

“Yes, are you sure I’m safe?”

“Would I let you get led into a trap?”

“No, I guess not.” She replied.

“Sure.” Tricia responded. They went into another room and made up Tracy. She was now going under the name of Rebecca. We traveled to the Building and Loan and walked inside. Jacie was sitting at the desk and Tracy and I approached it.

“Hi, and welcome to Nano Building and Loan, how may I be of assistance?”

“Hi, I’m Adam Schofield. My wife, Rebecca, and I would like to take out a loan.”

“Could you fill out these papers?” She asked, handing me them. I wrote a big message to Jacie on it:

We left the Building and Loan and went back to the house. That evening, Tracy and I had a quiet dinner in the dining room. Noah and Jacie were due in to hook Jacie up to be traced for Wednesday. Tracy and I went into the living room and awaited their arrival. Two cars drove up and Karin answered the door. Jacie and Noah came in and stood in the living room. “I didn’t want you to come all the way back down, but another tenant just appeared!” Jacie stated.

“Another one!?” I asked.

“That must be Nancy!” Tracy stated.

“This is crazy! If it was a kidnapping, why didn’t the kidnappers keep the girls for ransom?” Noah asked.

“Because it’s more than kidnapping. It’s brainwashing. Do you remember how Tracy said that they didn’t act like themselves? That’s probably because they aren’t.”

“But what do they all have in common?” Noah asked.

“When Tracy came into my office she described the girls as blondes that all lived on the same side of the apartment. What she failed to mention is that they all worked at the same place.”

“Nano Building and Loan.” Tracy stated.

“Correct.”

“So, you think this has something to do with the Building and Loan?”

“Possibly, but we need to know where these girls really were these past few weeks.”

“Well, according to the records, they were working those weeks. There are time counters punched in and out.” Jacie stated.

“But I didn’t see a one of them for that many weeks.” Tracy said.

“That’s entirely possible. If they were brainwashed they could go anywhere.”

“So, you’re saying that the Building and Loan is a front?” Noah asked.

“Possibly.”

“Possibly, possibly, possibly! Aren’t there any yeses?” Noah asked, frantically.

“No.”

“Well, at least he didn’t say possibly!”

“We must see what’s going on in that Building and Loan. Tracy, if I’m correct, there is still one girl missing?”

“Yes, Stacey.”

The United States and Israel share a common foundation—the Bible.  The Founders of this land had a reverence for the things of God—and part of that is a respect for the people of God.

That is part of the reason that Israel and the United States have such a warm relationship and that many of the leaders of this land find Mid-East peace something of a mission or something for a legacy.

However, in recent times there has grown a bit of a backlash to this relationship with Israel, specifically with the increasing portrayal of the former occupants of Israel as innocent victims rather than methodical killers.

In light of that, many in the states have desired to show a continued united front with Israel, and I’ve been asked to pass on a press release from one such group, the Zion Oil and Gas Website:

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