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 Uncivil War” is released only for historical purposes and is not to be released to any foreign entity.
This is the fifth 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 notebooks were sealed in what was called Zip-Lock plastic bags to preserve them. The author wrote most of the journal in 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.
Many survivors assumed help would come at any moment; of course, it took years for any sort of organized help to arrive. When help finally appeared to be coming, it came at the end of a rifle. The surviving military that had taken an oath to support and defend America was now taking from the survivors. This led to the distrust of anyone wearing a uniform.
Small raids for food, clean water and women grew into wars between various groups. The variable was those that had survived and were stuck in the Cheyenne Mountain Facility. They discovered an old escape tunnel that enabled them to leave the facility. A US Senator, Moore, from the state of Colorado, had been giving his family a tour of the facility when the war broke out. He declared himself President of the United States since no other federal politician had come forward. As soon as he exited the facility, he issued orders to the surviving members of the military to establish order in the country.
He declared martial law and threw the Constitution away. He ordered the survivors to turn in their weapons and to pay a tax in gold, silver, or supplies to the new government. His orders were dropped by four surviving C-130 cargo planes. The printed orders were usually ignored, and the paper used to start fires or as toilet paper. The survivors of The Third World War weren’t interested in orders coming from someone who’d ridden the first year after the war safe inside a mountain and had no idea how the survivors eked out a life. The last thing most of the survivors wanted was what they considered to be BS from the same people they blamed for starting the Third World War.
Allegiances and treaties between warlords and the military were signed and ignored. It was a very confusing and dangerous time in the rebuilding of America. There are stories that entire communities were killed in the Civil War. The war went back and forth until one side got its hands on a warehouse of weapons that were being prepared to be shipped to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
The Elder mentioned 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. We can determine from his writings that Murphy showed up when he was least expected but should have been. (The department is still attempting to determine how he could have known when he was least expected, yet he showed up, and whenever this person appeared, bad things happened. The Director hopes that if someone reading these notebooks knows who Murphy was, they will come forward and inform us so we can correctly identify him.)
Here, without any edits, is what the Elder wrote in his fifth notebook. The Elder had a key voice in how the "uncivil war" started and ended. He carried that guilt to his grave. He hated himself and blamed himself for what he had done. It was that guilt that may have caused his heart to give out,
Genre: Thriller
This is the fifth 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 notebooks were sealed in what was called Zip-Lock plastic bags to preserve them. The author wrote most of the journal in 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.
Many survivors assumed help would come at any moment; of course, it took years for any sort of organized help to arrive. When help finally appeared to be coming, it came at the end of a rifle. The surviving military that had taken an oath to support and defend America was now taking from the survivors. This led to the distrust of anyone wearing a uniform.
Small raids for food, clean water and women grew into wars between various groups. The variable was those that had survived and were stuck in the Cheyenne Mountain Facility. They discovered an old escape tunnel that enabled them to leave the facility. A US Senator, Moore, from the state of Colorado, had been giving his family a tour of the facility when the war broke out. He declared himself President of the United States since no other federal politician had come forward. As soon as he exited the facility, he issued orders to the surviving members of the military to establish order in the country.
He declared martial law and threw the Constitution away. He ordered the survivors to turn in their weapons and to pay a tax in gold, silver, or supplies to the new government. His orders were dropped by four surviving C-130 cargo planes. The printed orders were usually ignored, and the paper used to start fires or as toilet paper. The survivors of The Third World War weren’t interested in orders coming from someone who’d ridden the first year after the war safe inside a mountain and had no idea how the survivors eked out a life. The last thing most of the survivors wanted was what they considered to be BS from the same people they blamed for starting the Third World War.
Allegiances and treaties between warlords and the military were signed and ignored. It was a very confusing and dangerous time in the rebuilding of America. There are stories that entire communities were killed in the Civil War. The war went back and forth until one side got its hands on a warehouse of weapons that were being prepared to be shipped to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
The Elder mentioned 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. We can determine from his writings that Murphy showed up when he was least expected but should have been. (The department is still attempting to determine how he could have known when he was least expected, yet he showed up, and whenever this person appeared, bad things happened. The Director hopes that if someone reading these notebooks knows who Murphy was, they will come forward and inform us so we can correctly identify him.)
Here, without any edits, is what the Elder wrote in his fifth notebook. The Elder had a key voice in how the "uncivil war" started and ended. He carried that guilt to his grave. He hated himself and blamed himself for what he had done. It was that guilt that may have caused his heart to give out,
Genre: Thriller