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From the Journal of Landon Pierce (then Age 16)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
January 20, 1933
Honestly, I did not want to write this journal. I'm only doing this because my mom says it's a good idea for me to reflect on the past. Well, if the past in the future is about the war that everyone's been saying will happen soon, I'm scared. I see no future in that.
I was there. Yes, I was watching the inauguration of President McSweeney in person today, and frankly, even with the cold taking my mind off some of the parts of his inauguration speech, it was quite horrifying, listening to the President's hateful words, which I didn't understand at first, but as time went on, I began to understand more and more of what he was hinting at. And the screams of the people assembled there, their voices hoarse with hate. Even Mother and my brothers were all screaming, as if Father could hear them in heaven. I could swear that a woman who looked like a Jew was crying next to me – I remember her face from somewhere in the papers, but can't seem to recall accurately. Oh dear God, what are we coming to?
I dislike – nay, hate the NPPA. They do nothing more than preach messages of hate, and I believe they are horribly misguided in their goals and ambitions of achieving everything unsustainable towards peace. War. Racism. Hate. All things that serve to make our world worse, not better. If I could vote, I would have gone for the Republicans, or even the Socialists. At least they would have done things properly, unlike what McSweeney has in mind.
If there is anything to look forward to, I guess it would be the Olympics. The voting was ended two years ago, during the Depression, when Philly was selected for the Games over other candidate cities like Richmond and London, and I guess that's a good thing, because I believe in the ability of sport to bring together people through friendship. Of course, with the fiery hatred coming from McSweeney and his goons, it's hard to imagine how that will be like when he opens the Games with a terrifying speech that basically denounces everyone he hates – Jews, Mormons, Negroes, the lot – it can be expected that the spirit will be very…interesting.
Anyway, in outside news, it looks like the CSA and Canada, our neighbors to the north and south, are looking a bit…edgy…over McSweeney's inauguration, and it appears they've been beefing up security across the border. Same situation with France, Poland and Red Russia. In Europe things are becoming worse and worse. Germany has become increasingly racist and nationalistic as the right-wing Nazis and their leader, Adolf Hitler, have managed to edge their way into power in their version of Congress, and are consolidating their power by cracking down on opposition like socialists and liberal democrats, so I'm very worried that the same will happen here in the USA too. There are rumors circulating that Hitler will become Chancellor of Germany soon, and an alliance between the Patriots and the Nazis would be... terrible, for all.
I'm scared for the future. I do not want to see another war. I never knew my father – he died towards the end of the war on a ship only minutes before the armistice was announced, just the day after I was born. I also lost my uncle during the taking of Philadelphia. I do not want to live those horrors again, but it seems like I will have to. I am truly scared, not just for myself, but for my brothers, my mother, and everyone else.
Anyway, Mother is calling me down for supper. I'll write again soon.