Sunday, May 10, 2009

Darnell Hackworth: Ainsworth, Nebraska


Today, I interviewed Darnell Hackworth. He and his wife were two very nurturing people that established a retirement home for the four-legged that helped the war effort more then anybody else. At first, I didn't think that dogs could have done much, but after seeing what they were trained to do, I just sat back and listened. As I have described in previous posts, dogs were used to sniff out the the normal people K9s were basically brought up from birth to sniff out zombies. He said that the main test was to put zombies on one side of a fence, and the newborn dogs on the other. The dogs used in the force were the ones that looked the zombies in the eyes and growled. The cowards were not used at all. The dogs didn't just sniff out the bad guys. The lures would go out and hunt for zombies, lure them back to the soldiers, and allow them to open fire. The decoys would run around to the zombies and only bark on the far side to allow the soldiers to set up a firing line. Finally, there were the Long Range Patrol dogs who would go out for days in search of zombies. Soldiers would attach GPS to them in order to find out where the zombies where. As you can see, dogs played a crucial role in the war and were given the jobs people were too lazy to do.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Todd Wainios: Denver, Colorado


Today, I interviewed Todd Wainios. Todd was yet another tough soldier that fought on the front line of battle. Their crew's job was to establish a bunker in the middle of a desert and basically shoot at every zombie that comes their way. Todd described this place as living hell. He said that you would go out there and hold off zombies for 10 or more hours and then try to go to sleep. Of course, who could sleep when these zombies are only a couple of miles away and closing in. Their crew did it very professional though. They would mark off distances every 10 meters just to decide how they will have to compensate for the distance. Also, they had special units whose job was solely to reload the shooter's ammo. He said that the first zombie he saw really freaked him out. Although he had been on the front line before, he wasn't used to fending off thousands upon thousands of zombies. After all he told me, it didn't surprise me when he said that there where so many zombies, that a bulldozer had to clear a pathway out because they were stacked waist deep high.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Terry Knox: Sydney, Australia


Today, I interviewed probably the wealthiest of anyone I have interviewed. His name is Terry Knox and he was the commander of the International Space Station. As you can imagine, Terry had the best seat in the house at watching the zombies attempt to take more lives. His crew's job was to use the satilites orbiting the earth as sort of magnifying glasses. They were to observe any advancing zombies and report it to the people on earth. As interesting as it may sound, Terry and his crew had a problem. They only had enough supplies to last them about 27 months. When time was about to run out on their lives, they luckily found an obandoned module drifting around in space. This space craft served as a wonderful supply station for the crew and allowed them to stay up their for much longer than they thought they would. Think about what would have happened if the earth didn't have this sort of watchful eye over them at this crutial moment. Afterall, these zombies can be anywhere.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Sensei Tomonaga: Kyoto, Japan


Don't let the "sensei" part fool you. This guy is about the toughest person I have ever met. Tomonaga first heard about the outbreak while he was working at his restaurant. His boss called in a meeting for the whole staff about his plan. Convinced that there was no way to survive while the zombies where advancing towards him, Tomonaga decided to set out on his own. He set out at night and began hitchhiking his way down the roads in search of The Hiddaka National Park. Many people were more then welcome to give him a ride. The drivers along the way would talk about all of the outbreaks that were happening in Sapporo and longed for the authorities to start to tell the people what to do. After arriving in the national park, Tomonaga began to familiarize himself with the area, finding hideouts that could suit him just in case a zombie came about. Armed with just a makeshift shovel, Tomonaga was able to kill hundreds of zombies and still have the respect to bury each and every one of them after he did so. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, he is blind.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Kondo Tatsumi: Kyoto, Japan


Kondo, in my eyes, seemed like a typical monk. He was clean-shaved, tanned, and bald. But I could have never imagined that interviewing a monk would be this exciting. He told me that Japan had been brought up differently then The US had. Japan was taught to memorize seemingly useless information about useless subjects. This is part of the reason that the monk such as Kondo, used laptops and other very high tech devices. Kondo told me that when the outbreaks started happening in Japan, nobody was worried. The monks and everyone else thought of the zombies as very interesting and studied their habits rather than plan an escape. This was a terrible situation. It wasn't until the zombies were knocking at his doorsteps that Kondo began to think of an evacuation plan. Since the hallways were swarmed with zombies, he decided to go out the window. He decided to create a makeshift rope out of bedsheets because he was on the 19 floor of the monastery. He would repel a few floors down, gather moor sheets for his rope, and continue on. Although this "all brains and no brawn" upraising seems rather useless in a zombie war, I guess we all have our strengths and weaknesses.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Gavin Blaire: Parnell Guard Base, Tennessee


Gavin was probably one of the most misleading individuals I have ever interviewed. After hearing her story, it was hard for me to believe that a woman this seemingly harmless could have gone through this much. She flew a Raptor FA-22 and her teams main objective was to deliver supplies to malnourished areas. Her and her partner where flying a routine flight when all of a sudden, the plane took a nose dive into the ground. Gavin luckily made it out alive. Her partner though got his parachute caught in a tree and was eaten alive by the zombies below. Just when she was about to give up on all hope, her radio started beeping. The person calling in was from the Skywatch system. Their job was to call in to pilots that had crashed and guide them to a rendezvous point or civilization. Along the way of her journey back, Gavin was given advice from "Mets Fan" such as not to go near cars, how to jump from a tree, and which direction to go. Such little advice was crutial to help Gavin make it out alive. At one point, Gavin broke her ankle by landing on a rock. Even with her hope in shambles, she was able to make it to the rendezvous point with the guidance of a watchful eye.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Bohdan Taras Kondratiuk: Odessa, Ukraine


Today, I interviewed Bohdan Taras Kondratiuk. I found him at a hospital where mostly of the patients suffer from respiratory disorders. He seemed to have it very bad here and might not make it longer, every time he coughs, blood spurts from his mouth which is not a good sign. Bohdan also talked of a very serious war story in Zhitomir. Their mission was to watch over the bridge and make sure that no zombies were getting over across the bridge to the other side while at the same time, letting thee refugees get over that aren't harmed. As you can imagine, this was a complete failure. How can you expect to hold out thousands of advancing zombies while at the same time checking every single one of them for bite marks. First of all, husbands weren't just going to let their wives strip down naked and watch as random 25 year olds check them for bite marks. So you see, this was a fiasco of people trying to jump into the water and swim across as other people would just try to run past the guards. After the soldiers radioed in and called for help, four jets swooped low over the bridge and dropped RVX, an oily rain that gets deep into your pores and basically shuts down your central nervous system. It seems as though they had given up on the evacuation and decided to simply bomb them. Thankfully, Bohdan made it out alive, others.........not so lucky.