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.