WILTON – Sgt. Karen Corbin, who is stationed in Mosul, Iraq, was able to e-mail a friend Tuesday to tell her she was all right.

Corbin – a member of the 133rd Engineer Battalion, Company C, Detachment 1, of the Army National Guard – responded to an e-mail written by Pearl Colford of Livermore Falls, who was checking to see if she was OK after she heard reports of the attack on the mess tent where the unit was stationed.

Colford said she told Corbin that she knew she was busy, and that if she couldn’t write she could just hit the reply button.

“I cannot stay on long,” Corbin wrote at 2:15 P.M. Tuesday. “I just want you all to know I am fine. Don’t worry about me. I have not been hurt. Thank you all for your prayers. They truly work! I love you all.”

Colford said she received a second message from Corbin, which said she had decided not to go to the dining tent that day, instead staying in the cement building she lives in.

Colford has taken care of Corbin’s son, Carl Bigelow, since 1998 when he was 2, at her day-care center. As Carl grew older he stayed with Colford when Corbin served her weekend Guard duty. Carl is staying with his aunt in Virginia while his mother is in Iraq.

Corbin’s two other sons, teenagers Cory and Chris, live with their father in Jay.

Corbin told Colford not to worry too much about her, Colford said, because prayers and God were protecting her.