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Submitted to Contest #101
0400, December 14th 1984 at US Army Base 14-N located one hour outside of Augsburg, Germany. The nuclear warning alarm goes off waking up Minute Man Group 24 as they prepare for retaliation. “God, do they have to run these drills so fucking early? Don’t the damn Soviets sleep?” “You don’t know this is a drill Roswell'' Another soldier nervously whines tying his boots “We've never run one before 0600 this doesn’t make sense” Pulling on his fatigues Roswell starts reassuring his fellow Minute Men though his sincerity is questionab...
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