Todd Wainio: Denver, Colorado, USA

Today I interviewed Todd Wainio, a soldier in the, what I will call, 'reclamation army'. Once total war against the infected had been called about the army was re-outfitted and retrained. He talked about how the army was unmechanized, removal of almost all offensive attack vehicles, like tanks and Bradleys, the only vehicles they had were armored vehicles and Humvees for transport. The normal gear and armor was replaced with navy blue BDUs, just light, bite-proof combat armor. The entire army was re-outfitted with SIRs, standard infantry rifles, that were cheap and easy to mass produce. They were reliable and never jammed, they fired standard NATO 5.56 "Cherry PIE" rounds, PIE standing for pyrotechnically initiated explosive. Easy one hit kills against zombies if shot into the head. The army had been trained and practiced shooting under metronome, firing a bullet every second and relaxing, but keeping alert, in between to create maximum efficiency and accuracy. The next largest engagement beside Yonkers was held at Watershed. The army set up a defensive position in a wide area with easy LOS, line of sight, Todd explained. They dug out trenches and marked the field with orange Day-Glo tape every ten meters to mark distances. They had set up their position and started calling attention to themselves to attract the zombies and get the chain attack going, as the zombies moan they call attention to other zombies miles away and bring them all in from everywhere. The army had "Sandlers", who were used as the Recharge Team, bringing ammo to whoever ran out so that the rate of fire never ceased for too long. As the fight wore off into the night they started swarming from all sides and the army moved into a reinforced square, covering all sides that they were being attacked from and killing all the zombies. The zombies never even got close enough to have the soldiers resort to hand-to-hand combat. He said that the engagement ended at what he would guess to be 0400, the last infected emerging just at the start of dawn. As the sun let out its light it was revealed that there were so many zombies that they hand been completely encircled by a twenty-foot wall over a hundred feet deep of dead infected bodies. At the end the men got to rest and they moved on, they were "reclaiming our future".

General D'Ambrosia: Aboard the Mauro Altieri, Three Thousand Feet Above Vaalajarvi, Finland

Today I interview General D'Ambrosia, he explained what the 'Brass', army commanders, had gone through trying to organize the army for the offensive. The zombies didn't need supplies, moral, or even a centralized command. They just chained together for their next meal. This was a nightmare for army commanders because all basic and conventional tactics had become useless, you couldn't starve them, you couldn't assassinate their leader, you couldn't block off all their supply routes. He also explains why 'total war' is impossible. It is impossible because no country has the strength to commanded all 100% of its populace to fight, it just isn't possible because it would require having children and elderly people to fight when they can't. But the zombies could, they were the only know people in the world throughout time that could actually wage total war because they had a mind for nothing else. All in all the idea of total war for the commanders was an utter nightmare and impossible to fathom.

Terry Knox: Sydney, Australia

Today I interviewed Terry Knox, the first and only Australian commander of the International Space Station. The ISS was one of the greatest marvels of human engineering, a giant platform in space that could be seen from Earth with the naked eye. The purpose of the platform was to refuel all the satellites in space so that none of them would fly into the gravitational pull of the Earth and be ruined, this was much more effective than sending up a ship and crew to refuel individual satellites when they were running low. He and his crew had been given the option to escape from the ISS during the war, but they refused due to leaving such a magnificent feet alone to float through space and it was obviously safer up there. His crew and himself had been able to observe every single event that happened on Earth as well from the space platform, watching humanity slowly die out. He said he would do it all over again if he could, after I had interviewed him. He had been exposed to tremendous amounts of ultraviolet light without protective gear and was on his deathbed at the time. I honestly am jealous of him, it would've been a great experience to have been up there.

Barati Palshigar: Ulithi Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia

Today I interviewed Barati Palshigar, a member of Radio Free Earth. Their job was to report on the combat the misinformation that the public had established. Helping to make sure that people knew what was really going on. During the interview he talked about people who thought of World War Z as the rapture and that the world was ending, they would rape virgins in order to become cleansed of their "curse". The problem was that they couldn't report on each call that they had coming into them from people all over the world in different languages and everything. The IR, information reception, clerks were the ones receiving all these calls and the only thing that they could do was sit and listen to the pain and agony and eventually they all killed themselves not wanting to live with the memories. I find this whole operation might not have been worth it to create false hopes for some, but for the greater good, I think it was.

Kondo Tatsumi: Kyoto, Japan

Today I interviewed Kondo Tatsumi. He was an otaku, an outsider, which in Japanese society is a 'ribbon of shame' whereas in America it is like a 'badge of honor'. He was different from the crowd as in the fact that he didn't really care about the world, he cared about cyberspace. He devoted his life to it and researching and finding out the newest information and news about the zombie infestations around the world with his own group there to comment on his findings. As his group became infected he eventually gave up and had to get away, his parents had become infected or had fled without him for all he knew. He put his knowledge that he had gained from research underway and escape the apartment building while gather supplies and such. I honestly don't know what to think of Kondo though, he was odd to say the least. The fact that he couldn't care about anything except his cyberworld seemed stupid to me, but it was basically all he had known in his life. To this day he has been trying to figure out what happened to his parents.

Colonel Christina Eliopolis: Parnell Air National Guard Base, Tennessee

Today I interviewed Colonel Christina Eliopolis, she was a Raptor pilot for the USAF. She had just become a Raptor pilot right around the time when the zombie war had started, and since artillery and bombs were virtually useless against the zombies the Raptor pilots were disbanded to some other part of the USAF. They were normally reassigned to piloting cargo planes that dropped supplies on safe zones. This had frustrated her greatly and she became angry with the DeStRes "experts". During one of her cross country delivery flights something went horribly wrong and the tail of the plane broke off. She was thrown out of the plane with nothing except her survival pack. When she landed she noticed that her radio had been destroyed after a visual inspection of it, but a skywatcher had started to contact her. Colonel Eliopolis had landed in a infested swamp and needed to get out of it and the skywatchers' jobs were to help get pilots that got stranded to safety. The problem was though that after a long journey to the main highway to get picked up by helicopter, but the helicopter wasn't government or official skywatcher transport. It was just a regular helicopter doing runs and the pilot had no idea what she was talking about when Colonel Eliopolis said they were just on time. The USAF thinks that Colonel Eliopolis had just conjured the thought of the skywatcher up to help herself make it throught he swamp, that it was all in her head. Of course, it makes a lot more sense than what Colonel Eliopolis had told me, but she herself denies that it was just an imaginary person. Even though all evidence supported that it was and she had just psychologically broke down. I'm not entirely sure what to believe, but I think regardless that the only reason she is alive today is because of that skywatcher whether or not she was real.

Philip Adler: Armagh, Ireland

I interviewed Philip Adler today. He was a soldier, but also a West German. The significance of being a West German was that they never forgave themselves for the atrocities committed in World War II. In East Germany on the other hand they were told that they were not responsible for the atrocities and that they were good communists. This had a direct impact on Philip because he was given the order to leave hundreds of refugees alone to act as fodder for the zombies while the unit pulled out. He didn't want to comply with this order though and hated General Lang for ordering him to do it. What made him hate General Lang even more was that he admitted to everyone that he couldn't live with himself and handle the burden of remembering this and killed himself. Philip lost all respect for him because of this, he ordered mass murder and killed himself because he couldn't handle what he had just done. He couldn't have even waited for him to let him kill him. This order was given under the Prochnow Plan, which was the German version of the Redeker Plan, but even after Philip had learned of why he was ordered to do what he did he still hated General Lang. He hated him because General Lang knew it was the beginning of a long war and that he was one of the people needed to make it successful, but gave up. I don't take pity on General Lang either, but I find Philip's attitude towards his commanding officer to be slightly disturbing.

T. Sean Collins: Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies Federation

Today I interviewed T. Sean Collins who is a mercenary, for lack of a better word. During the great panic he was hired by celebrities that had the money and power to buy an island to build a giant fortress on. It was fortified with large, fortified walls, houses, steel gates, and enough guns and food to last for the rest of their lives, which is probably exaggerated but possible. These were celebrities that he was a hired gun for though, they had to always be on camera and showing the world what they were doing which led to their untimely demise. People, yes regular people, that had seen them on T.V. or something else had gathered together to raid and take over the fortress for themselves to keep themselves safe. He was there to defend them, but the shear number of them against the guards at the garrison made it impossible for them to keep them from getting inside. The guards escaped while the 'normal' people attacked the celebrities and took over the garrison, but mostly destroying it. I think, as did Collins, that if the celebrities had just got over themselves and not demanded attention during an apocalypse they would've survived.

Todd Wainio: Denver, Colorado, USA

Yonkers was a horrible defeat for the United States Army. The 'Zack', what zombies are called by the military, had completely crushed the US Army's fortified position. The problem was that they were ordered to set up on the streets, dig foxhole to hide in and barricades, when they were surrounded by plenty of houses and tall buildings that they could've just stationed themselves on top of and picked off the zombies. That was the one of the downfalls of the military operation at Yonkers. The another downfall was that it was impossible to 'Shock and Awe' the living dead. Artillery may have blown they to pieces, but unless it destroyed their brain, they didn't care.
Finally, and probably the biggest error of Yonkers, they didn't have nearly enough artillery or ammo to take out the hordes of thousands of zombies. They only had enough to take out the beginning of them, but the hundreds of thousands that followed them wouldn't be able to be killed. If they had been overall smarter about their positioning of their troops and weaponry then I think that Yonkers would have turned out differently.

Breckinridge "Breck" Scott: Vostok Station, Antartica

Today I interview Breck Scott. He saw the break out and panic of the "rabies" and what it was doing to humans and saw it as an opportunity to make money. He created a "vaccine" for rabies, but in truth it was just a drug that was put on the market to make him money. His intentions in doing so were unmoral and selfish, but really the drug's purpose was to take away peoples fear of infection and to aid in the stressing times and recession. While I don't agree with him seeing a world wide plague that was infecting and killing the human race as an opportunity to get rich, the effects of what he did were amazingly powerful. Phalanx, that's what the drug was called, was only a cure for fear, but it helped boost the economy and raise peoples spirit and moral. It could be said, and even by himself, that he himself solved the recession and America's problems with a fake vaccine that he was using to get rich fast. This astounds me, and I'm truly confused on how he pulled it off and got it past the government and FDA because it was obvious to them (as stated in a previous interview) that this drug was a fake, but it also aided the government in making their job easier. So I guess he did more good than bad in the end.

Nury Televaldi: Lasha, The People's Republic of Tibet

Today I interviewed Nury Televaldi. He was somewhat reluctant to talk with me at first, only giving the smallest amount of information to answer my questions, he started answering more in depth later into the interview though. He was a shetou, a smuggler of refugees. Most of the questions I had to ask to keep him talking, but they all directed themselves towards his trade mostly before the outbreaks started getting too intense. He warmed up to me, I think, and started answering more in depth, but as he did it seemed like there was a lack of moral standing in his trade. He was willingly smuggling refugees that had been infected, only in their early stages, but this seemed irresponsible to me. Helping to spreading an infection that turned humans into something inhuman only to turn a profit. It's what smugglers do though I suppose. He hesitated when I asked him about the myth the shetou propagated about a miracle cure in other countries, he said he didn't do it himself, but I doubt this honestly. He had no reason to think it over if he hadn't done it. That, or maybe it was possible that there actually was a cure some place that the shetou had known about, but no one stepped forward to address their findings. Either way, this interview was slightly disappointing.

Kwang Jingshu: Greater Chongqing, The United Federation of China

Earlier today I had an interview with Kwang Jingshu, a Chinese medical doctor. He seemed tired from all the past events that have happened to him, but he wasn't reluctant to share his experiences with me thankfully. He explained the symptoms of the infected before they broke out completely: high fever, violent shivering, and bite marks from where they were attacked. He explained in detail his encounter with the source of the seven patients in critical condition, a young twelve year old boy. He discovered, while trying to take a blood sample from the boy, that he no longer had any blood in him, or if he did all that was left of it was brown and destroyed liquid. While he was examining him, the boy tore off his own arm and broke free from the chains binding him and the doctor fled from the room locking the door behind him. He explained the event vividly, it made me feel sick, the boy hadn't even flinched after tearing his own arm off. While he was evacuating the patients the Spetsnaz attacked the helicopters, but no specific reason was given for the attack other than there had been previous border violence between China and the Soviet Union which was ended back in 1969. I want to know how the Spetsnaz had gotten there or at least why they were there at that time, it just seemed so unusual... I didn't get a chance to ask him about this considereing he had already provided me with ample information about the incident and the attack wasn't the main point of the interview, but I wonder if the Spetsnaz had known already that there was something unusual happening that night.