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A novel. 

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Day Two, 4 pm – The Men of Honor start to get some help

 The news from St. Vincent’s was not good, and when Terry returned she went straight to her computer.

 Sixty-odd patients and staff had survived there, but were in very rough shape.  They had nary a drop of water and absolutely no food, plus they had lots of injuries.  Worse, the most intact places were the basements and subterranean hallways, which were pitch black and lacked ventilation. St. Vincent’s was desperate for whatever we could give them, but most of all they needed the outside world to know how critical their situation was.  Terry aimed at getting their mayday call out to the world.  Continue reading →

 A novel.  

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Day Two, 2 p.m

The Men of Honor go into action

 I made copies of the Code and our flyer, and brought them out to TT, who was in the Commons area playing video games with the guys. 

 TT read them and said, “Okay guys, get your berets.  We’re gonna have our first meetings of the Men of Honor and get our plan together for helping the neighborhood.”  Continue reading →

A novel. 

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Day Two, 12:45 p.m.

 Two more come home, and the Men of Honor concept takes shape

A bespeckled young man stood out in the dust holding two boys in each hand, and all of them were wrapped in green garbage bags.  At first I didn’t recognize Deon and Naleef, and why they didn’t just walk in the house on their own I didn’t know.  We motioned to the main door in front of the house, and the stranger led our guys in that direction.  We all met at the door. Continue reading →

A novel.

Prologue:

 My name is Dave Stein.  At the time of the nuclear bomb attack on Worcester, Massachusetts I was a psychotherapist for the Unified Alliance of Worcester and assigned to Unity House, their foster care residence for juvenile male offenders.

 This story is my account of how my clients and I survived the destruction of our home and city, and formed the rescue group known as The Men of Honor.

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   Day Two, 11:15 am

Love, radiation, and an idea

 Critical to our survival was learning about the “seven-ten rule,” which decreed that for every multiple of seven hours radiation decreased by a factor of ten.  The danger from the dust was one-tenth after the first seven hours, and then one-hundredth after forty-nine hours.  Continue reading →