NOTE from the Department of National Records Preservation (DNRP) (By a FOIA [Freedom of Information Act]Request) filed on September 22, 2040: This copy of the document known as “Black Friday, The Dark Times” is released only for historical purposes and is not to be released to any foreign entity.
This is the third notebook in the series of notebooks discovered in August 2037 when the Army’s First Response team arrived in the author’s neighborhood to restore power and take a census of the survivors. The author wrote most of the journal in first person, and the Department of National Records Preservation has decided to leave it as it was written. Some misspellings may be due to how English was spoken and written before and shortly after the war. This notebook deals with the issues of dealing with what the author named, and the DNRP has decided to use his term when referencing the time period of two months to two years after the end of the Third World War. The now agreed upon term is, ‘The Dark Times.’
The Department hopes you learn the lessons explained in this book. When reading these journals realize that most of the cities and countries in the Northern Hemisphere were destroyed, and billions of people died within the first six months of the war. There was no electricity or clean water, and they had to be their first responders.
When gangs or other criminals attacked the community, they had to deal with the threat by themselves with only the resources they had on hand. In the notebooks, the Elder was once asked what 911 meant; his answer struck a chord with the department, and he said it equaled 11 or it was the date of the second worst day in America’s history. The worst day was Black Friday, and the third was 12/07/1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. His students had never heard of those dates, so the Elder had to explain them to them. He ended his history lesson with, ‘Once upon a time when telephones worked. A person could dial 911, and help would be dispatched to that person's location. Now, there was no one to call, there wasn’t any help coming, they were alone, and if they didn’t take care of their problems, it wouldn’t get done. He told them that the nation of America would be reborn one day. He hoped they would see it in their lifetime, he knew he wouldn’t see it as he was already old, and his days were numbered. to have ever existed. He told them they were the lights that would bring an end to the dark times.
We have not edited or commented on what the Elder wrote in his notebooks. The first journal dealt with information on the war, some information we’d lost during the Dark Times. One of the Elder’s friends managed to survive the attack on Norfolk by being at sea testing an upgraded defense system on a carrier strike group. His friend told the Elder of what was assumed to be the last battle of the Third World War. The Elder’s notes on that battle are included in the second notebook. This notebook deals with the dark times when various diseases took their toll on the survivors. In addition to the new diseases, people turned to their darkest side when food ran out. Most survivors didn’t know how to grow new crops, and the now-proven theory of Nuclear Winter shortened the growing season to such a degree that people had to change the crops they grew. People turned to a food source the DNRP never anticipated.
The Elder made mention in all of his notebooks to a person with the name of Murphy. None of the departments’ records have been able to identify any person related to or living in the Elder’s community with the name Murphy.
The Department hopes you enjoy this notebook and learn something from how the Elder managed to shine a light on the darkness caused by the war.
Genre: Thriller
This is the third notebook in the series of notebooks discovered in August 2037 when the Army’s First Response team arrived in the author’s neighborhood to restore power and take a census of the survivors. The author wrote most of the journal in first person, and the Department of National Records Preservation has decided to leave it as it was written. Some misspellings may be due to how English was spoken and written before and shortly after the war. This notebook deals with the issues of dealing with what the author named, and the DNRP has decided to use his term when referencing the time period of two months to two years after the end of the Third World War. The now agreed upon term is, ‘The Dark Times.’
The Department hopes you learn the lessons explained in this book. When reading these journals realize that most of the cities and countries in the Northern Hemisphere were destroyed, and billions of people died within the first six months of the war. There was no electricity or clean water, and they had to be their first responders.
When gangs or other criminals attacked the community, they had to deal with the threat by themselves with only the resources they had on hand. In the notebooks, the Elder was once asked what 911 meant; his answer struck a chord with the department, and he said it equaled 11 or it was the date of the second worst day in America’s history. The worst day was Black Friday, and the third was 12/07/1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. His students had never heard of those dates, so the Elder had to explain them to them. He ended his history lesson with, ‘Once upon a time when telephones worked. A person could dial 911, and help would be dispatched to that person's location. Now, there was no one to call, there wasn’t any help coming, they were alone, and if they didn’t take care of their problems, it wouldn’t get done. He told them that the nation of America would be reborn one day. He hoped they would see it in their lifetime, he knew he wouldn’t see it as he was already old, and his days were numbered. to have ever existed. He told them they were the lights that would bring an end to the dark times.
We have not edited or commented on what the Elder wrote in his notebooks. The first journal dealt with information on the war, some information we’d lost during the Dark Times. One of the Elder’s friends managed to survive the attack on Norfolk by being at sea testing an upgraded defense system on a carrier strike group. His friend told the Elder of what was assumed to be the last battle of the Third World War. The Elder’s notes on that battle are included in the second notebook. This notebook deals with the dark times when various diseases took their toll on the survivors. In addition to the new diseases, people turned to their darkest side when food ran out. Most survivors didn’t know how to grow new crops, and the now-proven theory of Nuclear Winter shortened the growing season to such a degree that people had to change the crops they grew. People turned to a food source the DNRP never anticipated.
The Elder made mention in all of his notebooks to a person with the name of Murphy. None of the departments’ records have been able to identify any person related to or living in the Elder’s community with the name Murphy.
The Department hopes you enjoy this notebook and learn something from how the Elder managed to shine a light on the darkness caused by the war.
Genre: Thriller
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