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The World in a Baby’s Brain, Part 3
“Every country in the world is up in arms blaming the United States of America and now we can’t even find the Pentagon!” President Watson shouted while standing in the bunker. “Take me back to the Whitehouse situation room.
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General TC Iverson stood alone looking out at the frozen void of Antarctica from his office in the Pentagon. “Tell me this isn’t real,” Iverson mumbled as he reached to rub away the ice inside his window, “Somebody please tell me this isn’t real.” Around him ice was forming inside the room.
“General,” a voice on his intercom said, “We’ve managed to get heat in one room, Sir.”
“Which room?” the general asked.
“The Hall of Heroes,” the voice replied.
“Sounds like as good a place as any to die,” the general spoke softly. “I’ll be there in two minutes.”
General Iverson had joined the Army over forty years later as an enlisted man and had completed two tours of combat duty in the 2nd Afghanistan War and Russia before mustering out and signing up to attend West Point before finally working his way up to his position as Chairman of the…
