By Sharlonda L. Waterhouse
Post-Tribune staff writer
Karen Billings trembled in her chair Thursday morning as she watched the corner of her TV screen, where a clock slowly ticked away the hours to presumed war.
There was less than half a day remaining for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq.
“I couldn’t stop looking at that clock. That’s when it all really hit me. It became real,” Billings said as tears zig-zagged down her cheeks.
For the second time, Billings has a soldier son in the Persian Gulf facing battle, trauma, injury, possibly even death.
