Sunday, May 10, 2009
Ainsworth, Nebraska, USa, Darnell Hackworth.
Darnell Hackworth is a veteran of the K-9 corps and loves dogs. In the beginning, countries used dogs to sniff people to make sure if they were infected or not. They were put in cages or else they would've killed a lot of people. Many handlers died too. Later on, they used them to bait zombies and kill the. They would put puppies through PT, Physical Training, and make them hate Zombies. Dogs would scout the Zombies and then bark at them when they were told to bring them to the firing line. In close combat they would ram the back of the G to knock them over, and then bash there heads before they get up. They couldn't bite them or they would get infected. I thought it was cruel to the fact that the army used the dogs a mines if they couldn't be saved. It makes sense that they don't want a bigger force, but it is still kind of cruel. Also I was surprised to find out that the K-9 korps contains the most suicides out of all the branches of the army.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Denver Colorado, USA, Todd Wainio
I will now notify you about my second part of the interview with Todd. This is all after Yonkers, and he has been doing a lot of clearing of the disease. Now the army only, used vehicles to carry ammo, and their primary weapon was the SIR, standard infantry rifle. They use blue camouflage because it is the cheapest too. They were told to meet in Hope, New Mexico, and this was the first major ground engagement since Yonkers. The army at the time was recruiting a lot of new people, and Todd ended up next to a fifty-two year old nun. They used sniffer dogs to see how close they were. I found this pretty funny and cool that the army's' Primary Enticement Mechanism which is listening to Iron Maiden. They had an active line, a shooting line, and a reserve line that recharged the first line's weapons. There was also the Sandlers which would run around and reload peoples' clips. The term "Sandlers" came from Adam Sandler from the movie The Water Boy, and a water boy is a similar job to the Sandlers. There was so many zombies they that fought them for over twelve hours. Todd was glad he didn't have to stick aroudn for BS duty, bury the zombies. I thought it was cool how they used heavy metal to pump their men and how they called their reloaders Sandlers. I thought it was also a good decision to have a major engagement so they can eliminate the zombie force faster. Also I was surprised the different amount of diversity of age they chose for their new army. That is what I learned from a part of my interview with Todd.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Sydney, Ausralia, Terry Knox
I had my first interview involving space during the Zombie War a week ago. Terry Knox is known as a hero surviving while stranded in space. He and a few other astronauts boarded the ISS, a titanic space station that took sixteen countries a few years to build. Their plan was save many of the dying satellites because humanity depended on them. They uses "Jules Verne Three" to fix these satellites which made their jobs easy. They were never promised a rescue, and they only had enough food for twenty-seven moths. They had a lot of free time on their hand to do anything they pleased. Also they used their station to watch Zombie War chaos: Yonkers, fires, Pakistan against India, etc. Although, they couldn't hear what was happening which made them very curious on some situations. They thought they were the only manned station, but they received a signal from a Chinese space station, Yang Liwei, but it was cut short. They met up with the station, and there was enough food for five years and an escape pod. They also found one dead crew member that was shot by his other member. They could've taken the escape pod or the food, and the food was their choice. Three years later, they were rescued by an American Space Craft. Three days after this interview, Terry Knox died (rest in peace). I thought they made the right decision to take the food because there is a good chance that they would be rescued within five years in space. Also the escape pod possibly could have killed them, and there isn't anything to look forward to on Earth. I learned a lot about space, and Knox was a great interviewee.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
The Demilitarized Zone: South Korea, Hyungchol Choi
Hyungchol Choi is the deputy director of the Korean CIA. In this interview he generally compared North and South Korea. North Korea trained their citizens that their only purpose was to serve their country. About a quarter of their population is in their military, and they are at all times prepared for wars. South Korea is an open society that feeds on trade, and have a lot more of freedom than the North. After the war of North Korea against the U.S., the Koreans learned their lesson and honeycombed the mountainous terrain of their country. It is believed that is where everyone disappeared after the Great Panic. It seemed that there was less and less people as time went on. At the end of our interview he mentioned that possibly there are twenty-three million zombies underground in Korea. I think that this could be true. Out of all the millions of people, it is most likely there were a few infected people. Also I don't think that Korea would test everyone who entered their safe zone like Israel. Choi was a very good interviewee and I only had to ask him two questions to get all the information I wanted. That's all for my interview today!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Utithi Atoll, Federated States of Mirconesia, Barati Palshigar
Today my interview was with an Indian man named Barati Palshigar. He began with an interesting thought that I think is very wise. He said, "Ignorance was the real enemy, and cold, hard facts were the weapons." He explained how if we understood this virus as we do now, we would have survived so much better. He worked for "Radio Free Earth" on a vessel known as Ural. This program was a broad cast that fed information needed to safe zones all around the world. South Africa was the first one that started this idea. There were many misinformation that was going around that this program had to fix that frustrated Barati. He then told me how he was glad he did not work for Ural's IR, Information Recepter. These workers were the ones who recieved the findings or cries from people who needed their help. All of these workers are not alive today because they commited suicide due to all the horrifying calls they recieved every day. Barati I found was very nice and I learned all about how information was given to safe zones. It's because of people like him that we made it through this war. He gave me good long answers, and I enjoyed my talk with him.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Parnell Air National Guard Base, Tennessee, Christina Eliopolis
She began telling me her frustrations with the air force because what they were trained to do was not valuable. The only thing they were supposed to do is fly supplies to citizens, facilities, etc. During one trip, she had to go to the bathroom and the plane malfunctioned and started to nose dive to the ground. When she got out of the bathroom, she flew out of the back end of the plane and opened her parachute. There was no signal on her radio, and she saw only one other parachute. When she landed she found her co pilot being devoured by five zombies and blew them to bits. She got mad at her self for messing up and thinking the crash was her fault. Her radio signaled eventually from a woman sky watcher known as "Mets". She was told to meet up at the highway and avoid the streets. Christina foolishly looked for supplies and ended up battling sixty-one zombies. She had to camp on a hammock on a tree. When she woke up, there was at least 100 more below her. The sky watcher guided her to jump and make a run the pickup. She badly her ankle on the jump, but the watcher pushed her through everything. She got picked up after firing her flare. It turns out that there was no sky watcher "Mets", and the pick up plane was a random civilian helicopter that saw her flare. Christina was tested for a psych evaluation and she still claims that the watcher was real. I don't think Christina should think that the plane crash was her fault. It was a malfunction and there was nothing she could do about it. I think she is a brave true pilot who cares about this country very much. She gave me very detailed answers and I enjoyed this coversation with Christina Eliopolis.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Sand Lakes Provincial Wilderness Park, Manitoba, Canada, Jesika Hendriks
Today I met Jesika Hendriks in a frozen Canadian wasteland. She is currently one of the volunteers in the Wilderness Restoration Project. She started off telling me after the great panic occurred with her family when she was younger. Her Dad was making her family move north because the zombies freeze in really cold weather. They packed a lot of food and everything they needed to survive. As they drove they saw many hitchhikers. They didn't pick up any but one innocent looking, elderly lady. They drove with her, and eventually realized that she had some type of bandage on her hand. They got rid of her before she infected them all. They worked together with people to hunt foods at designated areas. Once the zombies froze, they had trouble surviving in the winter. They ran out of food, they were all very thin, and her parents fought a lot. Eventually, violence broke out between the campers, and no one trusted each other. When it ended, people had to walk back because everyone ran out of gas. Millions of people died that winter, and she was very lucky to live. At the end, she made a good point about zombies: How could they survive after they are frozen because the cold would cause they're cells to burst? I've been thinking about this all night and I'm going to research it later. She must have had a very diffucult time up North, but in all, I had a very informational interview with her.
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