| At the Pentagon in, Washington D.C., a possible | | | | phosgene or mustard gas and carried that |
| way for something to happen is called a scenario. | | | | affliction with them until they died. I know the |
| Here are some scenarios for Bush War II: | | | | effects of phosgene first hand from an industrial |
| 1. We will be welcomed as heroes. Out troops will | | | | accident in Colorado. The lungs fill with water and |
| receive garlands of flowers and virgins will take | | | | you drawn in your own fluids. |
| them home to meet their parents. The oil will flow | | | | I knew two man that served in Europe during the |
| and then we'll go. | | | | Great War who came home without their minds. |
| 2. When we get into Iraq, the natives will tell us | | | | One walked around the streets of Salt Lake City |
| where the WMDs are and we will salvage the | | | | whistling the same tune. I could never get him to |
| materials and start several cottage industries. | | | | talk to me but he liked to have me walk with him. |
| Then we will go home. | | | | Another veteran could be seen near the Union |
| There are similar scenarios for the end of the | | | | Pacific depot, directing traffic on the street, and |
| World. The Bible is full of them. But first let's get | | | | saluting imaginary officers. |
| the date out of the way. | | | | He drifted from bar to bar getting free drinks |
| The world will end on the 21st day of December, | | | | from kindly bar patrons. |
| 2012. | | | | In Korea, my company captured two Russian |
| The Mayans and Hopi Indians already knew this | | | | trucks from our lend lease years and rescued |
| before we got here. Most of us should have | | | | two Korean boys. We loved those trucks |
| stayed in Europe. | | | | because they would actually run. We loved the |
| But we are stuck here in America and we will all | | | | boys and we supplied them with cowboy outfits |
| see the end of the world on that day. | | | | from the Sears catalog. |
| Al Gore has told us how it will end. It will be | | | | We lost all four of them when the army decided |
| something like this: | | | | we couldn't have such fine trucks and the Red |
| 1. The polar ice caps will melt causing the rats to | | | | Cross took the boys when they found their |
| flee New York City. Those that can not board | | | | grandparent, getting them off the line and out of |
| ships will scamper into New Jersey, then | | | | harms way. But the end of the world had |
| Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kansas. | | | | occurred for their parents. |
| 2. The rats will bite our dogs and contaminate | | | | When I dropped mortar rounds on young Chinese |
| them with fleas. The fleas will carry the bubonic | | | | soldiers, I knew their world was ended too. Their |
| plague which will kill everybody but the Seventh | | | | parents and loved ones would be crying. |
| Day Adventist who will rename Saturday, Sunday. | | | | We had a young man in our company named Ee |
| 3. God will come to earth and say, "What in the | | | | Tey Hee or Ree Tey Hee. He was a ROK soldier |
| heck happened here? What have you got to | | | | assigned to my platoon. |
| eat?" | | | | Ee Tey had lost his father and two brothers in |
| 4. God will tell the weather to behave and tell the | | | | the war as our troops and the North Korean and |
| weeds to take a flying hike. He will put Satan in a | | | | Chinese Armies took turns owning Seoul. |
| cage. | | | | I came down from the line for a shower after six |
| 5 God will live with his people for 1000 years and | | | | weeks in the cold and grime. Our platoon sergeant |
| then Satan will escape from his cage causing God | | | | went up to replace the other forward observer |
| to return to Heaven along with some of his | | | | and was hit in the knee. I was then made the |
| people. Then things will start all over again on | | | | platoon sergeant. |
| earth. | | | | One day Ee Tey was mopping around and I |
| Scientists say that our end will come before our | | | | asked what was wrong. I learned that his older |
| sun goes supernova. If there are survivors when | | | | brother had been killed on the railroad where he |
| it does go supernova any survivors on Miami | | | | worked by falling under the train. |
| Beach will be sunburned, then fried, then | | | | Some years ago while visiting Korea on business, |
| vaporized all within a few seconds. | | | | I took a train in mid-winter and had to go |
| There is also the possibility that we will get | | | | between cars. The ice darn near got me. |
| creamed by some celestial object that pops into | | | | Ee Tey's mother and teenage sister were left on |
| the ocean and causes tsunamis 300 feet high. It | | | | their own in Seoul. When I got home I got a |
| will be best to head for Santa Fe, New Mexico at | | | | letter saying that Ee Tey had been horribly |
| that time. | | | | wounded. It was about the end of the world for |
| Scientists also say that pollution of air, land, and | | | | his family. |
| water will be our demise. Pollution will continue to | | | | As I see the military and civilian casualties build up |
| cause extinction of life forms until it gets up to us. | | | | in Iraq and Afghanistan, I see the effect on |
| Then that will be it! | | | | military and civilian families. The other day a young |
| The last to go will be the rats who will be living in | | | | was killed at age 22 who was engaged to his high |
| Denver by that time. | | | | school sweetheart. |
| Scientists say that there have been at least six | | | | Imagine the devastation! His God-given genetics |
| major extinctions. A theory is that some of the | | | | which took eons to create were lost forever. |
| biggest were due to volcanoes like the super | | | | We lost a young man in our town who was |
| volcano that is currently hiding under Yellowstone | | | | fighting with my old unit in Iraq. I saw a funeral |
| Park. I was up there the summer before last and | | | | for a policeman in New Jersey one time that was |
| things are smoking! | | | | huge. So was the funeral for this young hero. I |
| From what I've seen in my lifetime things will not | | | | think the population of our town tripled. |
| be good. | | | | I have friends in New Jersey who have three |
| Calvin Coolidge was still alive when I was born, so | | | | sons and one daughter (she is a West Point |
| you can guess that I've been around for a while. | | | | graduate and a helicopter pilot) who are continually |
| I've seen the world end for some people. | | | | doing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. I knew these |
| I've been to the major cities destroyed in World | | | | gutsy kids when they were growing up and I |
| War II and we all saw the death camps first in | | | | pray for their continued safety, but I know from |
| news reals and then on television. | | | | the Korean War and World War II that they can |
| The death camps are open for you to visit today. | | | | be killed or maimed by enemy fire. |
| It was the end of the world for those people just | | | | This world ends everyday for some people. |
| as it was for the millions of young military men | | | | The God-given free agency of man is what kills. |
| and women and civilians who died throughout the | | | | We need to take more responsibility for our |
| world. | | | | actions and obey the law not to kill. |
| When I was a boy, we had veterans from World | | | | If we continue to breed hatred instead of reason, |
| War I, the Big War. My father and my uncle were | | | | the same effect will end the world for all of |
| veterans. Some of these men were gassed by | | | | us--on the 21st day of December, 2012. |