Sheriff Mark Lamb

And luckily, they didn't come.

But I spent four days going back and forth, or every night, doing a patrol or doing a security detail at our building, holding a gun at 17 years old from midnight to 6 AM until the military showed up four or five days later.

How long did this go on for?

So the military showed up about four or five days later and they had kind of gotten things under control by then.

But for the first three or four days, it was chaos.

My dad left within the first 30 minutes of them bombing because my dad was kind of crazy like that.

And my dad went out and he got stuck out there and had to hide in the bushes in a ditch until the next morning when he was able to work his way back to our building because of all the dignity battalion running around.

I mean it was craziness that first night.

But I loved, I mean, honestly, there was parts of it that I loved, but there was other parts of it that you're thinking.

But once again, what it did was it reestablished the love of America.

That you can put your head down on your pillow at night and for the most part, up until recently, know that you're going to be safe.

You can sleep good at night.

You know how it is.

You've been in there.

When you go to these places, you just never sleep good at night because you just don't know what's going on.

And per case in point, it went from full-on blown invasion one night.

So it makes you appreciate America and the stability that exists in this country, really, because hard men are willing to hold guns and go out and protect our communities at night.

Did you have any brothers and sisters?

So I have two brothers and a sister.

I'm the youngest of four, my two oldest brothers.