The removal of Supreme Commander MacArthur from command of Asia shocked the Japanese people. He had come in as a conquering foreigner and rebuilt their nation instead of ravaging it further as they’d known he could have. In the only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for December, 2014
They said yes. Julie and Alex wanted to sing more than anything. It was their escape from family lives that were not good. Julie of course would never consider going back to her dad, and Alex’s mother had died in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did you know that Contact was less of a surprise to your AIs than it was to the rest of humanity? From ancient Indian and Hebrew stories of flying ships and chariots of fire thousands of years ago to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After MacArthur answered questions about the Korean War from the newsies with statements Truman did not agree with, he ordered MacArthur to make no more public comments without approval of the State Department. MacArthur later wrote in a letter to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I said no. I was afraid we’d lose too much. I didn’t want to change myself to make money. I was afraid we’d sell out and then still not make money. There is so much more than most people realize[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Islamic Jihad ended in time. The nations that supported it fell to internal revolution or external conquest, often with the support of young AIs running on the remnants of the old computer networks. Constantinople, Persia, and Egypt arose from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We took a drubbing at Epsilon Reticuli but we blew their trap to kingdom come and got out. Then we had to make for Serenity. Serenity had yards to repair our ships, heavy defensive fleets, and powerful orbital forts. She[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President Truman began making moves in Washington to limit Supreme Commander MacArthur’s authority, while the Joint Chiefs continued to give him discretion on the ground that he ran with. American and allied forces drove north again, smashing both Chinese and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The wakeup call came when some big wigs in Nashville noticed us. It was a dream come true. All we had to do was cut our hair, change our names, maybe do some bleach blonding and other physical implants. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We survived the twenty-first century of course. We won the Jihad. We rebuilt from the Depression. We never did end the Cold War though. It exploded into The War of course, but The Great Peace that followed didn’t end it.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…