What Does the End of the World Sound Like?

[technicolorsun]

My granddad was a radio operator in the army air corps during the second World War, and he served as part of a flight crew charged with transporting medicine, officers, and other urgent freight from Northern California to places like Guam and Hawaii in the Pacific theater. One morning late in the war, after the Germans had surrendered, his crew

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[stoneevergreen]

That is really frightening.

The southern people part, not the world annihilation via nuclear weapons part.

group-think.

[technicolorsun]

well, the amazing thing about that is: southern people, like all people, come in all sorts of different varieties, which is something that people from other parts of the country tend not to realize, assuming that every single person who lives south of the mason-dixon line thinks and acts in the same specific way.

and that's just sad.

Re: group-think.

[stoneevergreen]

hey hey i agree with you. half my family is from the south, real nice folk. but i was making the nuclear war bit more of a satire.

Re: group-think.

[technicolorsun]

ah, my bad. i'm really touchy about this issue.

[sweetclovesmoke]

virginia sounds exciting! i eagerly await your stories!

[perihelia]

sounds like fun... the bolded part that is.