Posted by
Peppermint on Friday, June 22, 2007 9:33:21 PM
Juliet’s Diary
In the Sydney newspaper, The Australian, the following article appeared by Captain John Larimore of the United States Marine Corp:
In my hands I hold the remains of what little American history was left after her demise. One of the Commanders of the fleet of ships who evacuated us from Okinawa had a copy of what is called Juliet Smith’s Diary. He told the story of how he and some others had landed in Newport News to bring supplies to those remaining in the States after the dirty bombs went off. Before this Commander left America to return to Australia, he was given a copy of Juliet Smith’s Diary by a chap called PappyMichael.
PappyMichael told the Commander that while Juliet Smith wrote the diary another person copied each page so that the diary could reach across the sea to be read by others so that they would know what was occurring after the devastation of the States by dirty bombs.
The Commander who evacuated us gave me the Diary as he said he had no use for it. He told me that while it was entertaining, it really was no use as an historical document in his opinion.
My new country, Australia, has opened its’ arms to those of us men and women who were basically in limbo in Okinawa. It is a great country and the people of this country feel the bereft sadness that we from America feel over the complete demise of our country.
On July 4, 2009, America was hit by nuclear bombs and the entire country was annihilated. Chinese submarines off the coasts of the United States launched nuclear missiles and mushroom clouds appeared everywhere across the country. If anyone survived this attack it is doubtful that they remain alive today.
Sorrow for the death of my country is too mild a term. In fact, I cannot really put into words the great loss and sorrow I feel. How does one handle a loss so great? How do I go on knowing that the country that gave me so much and for which I gave my love and service, is now forever gone, only to be a story in the history books of tomorrow?
I ask myself how that history will be written. Will the United States be regarded as the last bastion of freedom and opportunity? Or will it be viewed only as an experiment that finally fell under the weight of its’ own success? The forces of freedom and individuality gave rise to a divided Nation. No longer were people willing to join forces together to fight a common enemy. That played a large role in how America fell. The Chinese nukes killed the American soil, which is now unusable with nuclear radiation But, America killed itself politically long before the nukes hit. America was dying within, slowly to be sure, but dying. The freedoms upon which the Republic was founded were eroding gradually over a period of time.
The fighting within the United States between two forces, the right and the left, became so pernicious that like a cancerous tumor eating away at the brain of an unsuspecting victim, the country hobbled on unwittingly towards its’ own end. How did it start and how did it come to such an end? Those of us Americans abroad who survived the end will no doubt argue this point into infinity or until the last American dies off. For we who are left will be assimilating into our new country. Our children and grandchildren perhaps will continue to tell our story, but eventually America will have become only a distant memory of an experiment that lasted for several centuries.
I can only say that my country America forgot the wisdom of a great leader, Winston Churchill. As a nation, we no longer sought to fight our enemy, but instead gave in to selfish and whimsical musings. We could not hold onto the idea of standing together to fight a common enemy. We lost our love of country, our Patriotism, and our will to fight.
“Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
Sir Winston Churchill, 1940
The End