April 2, 2013
The Pentagon
Col. James Ungerhold
The ever growing threats from
North Korea are becoming too much. After constant threats from the United
Nations the feeling is that they are going to start a nuclear war. Fear is
running through all here, we don’t know what to expect from the Koreans. The
president has been by more than ever. The
other nations have agreed to assist us if the threats are true. The amount of
testing has the world in a panic. We have seen the power of the nukes and no
one wants a repeat of that. Except for Korea that is.
April 3, 2013
My Office
Col. James Ungerhold
The day that we have all feared
has come true; the Koreans have threatened us with use of nuclear missiles. I
just finished watching the news like everyone else, wake up with my morning
cereal to hear that we are under attack. I haven’t even left to get my
newspaper or wake my kids up before I received a call to get ready. They will
be here any minute to take us back to the Pentagon. This is going to be a very
long week; I don’t foresee much sleep in my future.
April 3, 2013
White-Hawk Helicopter
Col. James Ungerhold
We just left the ground, it feels
weird getting VIP pick up from a military helicopter in the middle of my
street. A few members of the service stayed behind to guard my family; I still
wish I could take them with me. Little Sara must be so scared, I don’t know
what I would do if something happened to them. I’ve heard we have a safe base
on the border of Mexico far underground.
If anything goes wrong, I hope the solders know to take them south.
April 3, 2013
The Pentagon
Col. James Ungerhold
I just arrived with Lt. Gerry
McGregor and my neighbor, Col. Hunter Pavelski. The mad scramble around here
makes everything just that much more real. President Obama is I the room and
seems like he hasn’t slept in weeks. Then again who has? The scout drones have
returned video of the Korean missiles and it is worse than we had first
anticipated. Fields of silos line the ground with war heads ready to fire. The
secretary has been attempting to call the UN, the only plan that has resonated
in all could cause a lot of problems. The idea to bomb their missiles before
they could launch, however I don’t feel most of the UN would be against us. It
feels like the room is on fire, there isn’t one member of this room not
sweating.
April 3, 2013
The Pentagon
Col. James Ungerhold
We have received the go ahead from
the United Nations to sweep the nuclear missiles of North Korea. The tension in
this room can be cut with a knife, the order id ready to be sent, but who wants
to be responsible for that. It feels like the scene from the Dark Night, both
boats with the detonator to blow the other sky high, but we are still here, do
they truly want to kill us? I hope we can end this soon, but there is no god
that can be prayed to that can end this.
April, 4, 2013
The Pentagon
Col. James Ungerhold
It’s only been an hour and we
still have not come to a decision. Many have suggested to contact Kim Jong-Un
himself, but what do we have to say to him? “If you pull the trigger we are
dead, but if we pull first your whole country will be obliterated”. This whole
situation is just crazy, like why are we doing this? I need a cup of coffee.
April 4, 2013
White-Hawk Helicopter
Col. James Ungerhold
We are on route to the nuclear
safety base in Mexico. The suspicions were true that it was real; we have been
told that our family is being picked up. Sadly I doubt that. The missiles were
launched as we were deliberating whether to attack first. There is no way that
we have the ability to protect the entire country. I just hope that the small
area that we could save will be alright. This moment is almost beautiful, the
calm before the storm as they say.
April 17, 2013
Mexico- Nuclear War Bunker
Col. James Ungerhold
We have seen the full effect of
the war heads that struck this great nation. Everything is gone, everything has
burned, craters have opened in the earth, earthquakes and fires ravage the
country. Survivors travel the roads; many look at the helicopters puzzled as if
it isn’t real. Luckily they seem to have heard about the base, they are all
headed south. I hope my family is on their way; however I feel that I will
never see them again. What would they be thinking, walking to safety through
that, I don’t wish that on anyone.
Rationale
While
reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a story about a father and son
traveling south after an apocalyptic event that burned the nation, one question
continued to be brought up. Through every discussion we wondered how this
post-apocalyptic world was made as all we were told was that there fires and
seismic events. I then decided to create my own idea for how this could have
possibly happened. Through the journal entries of Colonel James Ungerhold I was
able to depict a scenario using real world ideas with differing endings. As
many know about the nuclear war threats of North Korea from 2013, I decided to
change history to create this apocalyptic waste land. Col. James Ungerhold was
a prominent member in the Pentagon and the talk of national security. He
documented his daily life with small journal entries whenever he got the
chance, using what we found from this time period, we were able to understand
what happened to create this burned world.
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