NOTE from the Department of National Records Preservation (By a FOIA [Freedom of Information Act]Request)filed on September 22, 2040: This copy of the document known as “Black Friday, To Build a New Community” is released only for historical purposes and is not to be released to any foreign entity.
This is the second journal 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 the first person, and the Department of National Records Preservation has decided to leave them as they were written. Some misspellings may be due to how English was spoken and written before and shortly after the war. This book deals with the issue of keeping over three hundred people alive in the aftermath of the war.
The Department hopes you enjoy and learn the lessons explained in this book. 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 and no clean water, and they had to be their own first responders. When a house caught fire, they had to put it out. If someone got very ill, their one doctor had to attempt to treat them with limited and decreasing amounts of supplies with no hope of replacement. Even the common Band-Aid was in short supply.
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 book, the Elder is 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 in our history 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, the people wouldn’t get solved. 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 in his, as he was already old and his days were numbered. He soon passed in his sleep after telling his students to work together to build and grow their community so that one day, they could be the new founding fathers of the greatest nation to have ever existed.
We have not edited or commented on what the Elder wrote in his notebooks. His first notebook dealt with information on the war, some information we’d lost during the Hard Times. One of the Elder’s friends at Norfolk managed to survive 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 this notebook.
This notebook also answered the question of what happened to the ‘missing strike group’ that had been on a pre-deployment cruise to South America when the war happened. Communications with the strike group had been lost due to the war. Many naval historians theorized the strike group had been discovered and sunk by either the Russians or the Chinese.
In this notebook, we learned that the Nimitz Strike Group ended up in Australia. The Prime Minister welcomed the Admiral and the surviving ships and submarines into the Australian Navy.
Genre: Thriller
This is the second journal 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 the first person, and the Department of National Records Preservation has decided to leave them as they were written. Some misspellings may be due to how English was spoken and written before and shortly after the war. This book deals with the issue of keeping over three hundred people alive in the aftermath of the war.
The Department hopes you enjoy and learn the lessons explained in this book. 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 and no clean water, and they had to be their own first responders. When a house caught fire, they had to put it out. If someone got very ill, their one doctor had to attempt to treat them with limited and decreasing amounts of supplies with no hope of replacement. Even the common Band-Aid was in short supply.
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 book, the Elder is 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 in our history 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, the people wouldn’t get solved. 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 in his, as he was already old and his days were numbered. He soon passed in his sleep after telling his students to work together to build and grow their community so that one day, they could be the new founding fathers of the greatest nation to have ever existed.
We have not edited or commented on what the Elder wrote in his notebooks. His first notebook dealt with information on the war, some information we’d lost during the Hard Times. One of the Elder’s friends at Norfolk managed to survive 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 this notebook.
This notebook also answered the question of what happened to the ‘missing strike group’ that had been on a pre-deployment cruise to South America when the war happened. Communications with the strike group had been lost due to the war. Many naval historians theorized the strike group had been discovered and sunk by either the Russians or the Chinese.
In this notebook, we learned that the Nimitz Strike Group ended up in Australia. The Prime Minister welcomed the Admiral and the surviving ships and submarines into the Australian Navy.
Genre: Thriller
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