The Heretic presents, from the mighty pen of Zen Gardner: "Epitaph: The Late, Great United States" to be found at; http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1794/370/Epitaph:_The_Late,_Great_Unit...

It's over. The sacrifice is done. A lone bugle plays weak, warbled taps as the smoke drifts from the ruins into the dark, grey sky.

America is finished. The plan is executed.

The labored shuffle of straggling survivors is heard as the rubble continues to slowly crumble. The jagged silhouette of a once proud metropolis looms in the background like the set of an old war movie.

Only this was no movie.
One Thing Led To Another..

And then it was over. Only now could the warnings be heard in the survivors' ears. Awake? If so, too late.

An eerie gasp of collective horror fills human consciousness as the news reaches distant shores, arriving like limp waves lapping in the misty silence, lonely drenched survivors dragging themselves up the beach.

Wailing and supplication erupt from humanity and saturate the heavens.