Cathleen - KR USA Story style AAR.
Just a little bit of writing I did a while back idly- Sort of a perspective story from the PoV of a soldier enlisted with the US during KRs American Civil War chain.
*Forgive me if you like it, I'll likely not do more with it, but perhaps, if interest is there etc. etc. I finished my last playthrough with the Japanese so now I need something to do and this may be it.
"People always said that America was safe from the problems in the Old World. Things never carried over the ocean, it's too far, our government is too stable, so on so forth. But these same people have been wrong over and over. First they were wrong about the French resolve in the Weltkrieg. Then they were wrong about Russia's revolution. Next up they were wrong about England, or should I say the Union of Britain now. Really it's all just a mess. After the Germans won the Weltkreig, Europe spiraled into chaos. Or at least England and France did."
"Because England was so absolutely starved and drained, the people had no will to work. But the government wanted work, so they tried to force it. They sent soldiers cut from the same cloth to get the workers back in order, and from there on you can tell what happened. Anarchy spread when the Army mutinied, and the pride of the British nation, the Royal Navy followed suit. With nothing else to do, the Royal Family fled up to our north, into good ol' Canada, and that's where they are today. The French went the same way, just far far earlier. Practically the moment the Germans pulled out of Paris they went to shit. The government-in-exile in North Africa remains convinced the people in Metropolitan France are being tortured under radical Syndicalism. Now, I'm not the most well educated, you know how it can be for a girl to get into school, so bear with me here."
"Now, Europe outside of Germany's sphere of... friends? No no, puppets, is a mess. The moment you leave Mitteleuropa, you find yourself somewhere unstable. Austria-Hungary, the Balkans, Spain, and god forbid you go to Russia. The communists may have been stomped out way back, but Russia is only standing on it's large military. From what I'm told, there's at least four well organized groups all trying to muscle for their plan for Russia. Anyways, you'd think that with all this in Europe, things in America would be hunky dory. Right? Well, not really. Since England and France lost, and the USA was invested in both of them heavily, she lost a lot of money and labor. This meant a lot of debt, and in turn a lot of disgruntled, unemployed laborers. I think you can tell where this goes, somewhat. Throughout the 20's and 30's, little was done to solve this, and in fact successive Presidents pretty much followed the Free Market ideas to the letter. This... well, this allowed the local Syndicalist movement, led by Jack Reed to grow it's membership, almost to alarming levels. And while in the north this was happening, the south was equally active. Huey Long and the America First party detested all forms of left-wing ideology, and went as far as to form an armed paramilitary group, one I see often in my service, the Minutemen."
"Where am I from? That's kind of a silly question, isn't it? I'm from the USA, right? Seriously though, I was from Oregon before it went out and joined the Pacific States with California and Washington. They're mostly alright though, got an agreement with MacArthur's government to not step in on the war no matter what, least so far that seems to be the case. Does it bother me to fight for a country I don't live in? Sure, somewhat, but after this is all done with I like to think Oregon and the west will come back. I mean, once it's all said and done one way or the other it's not like they could say no. Same with New England. Though I don't think they'd give up, or Canada would let them go if the Syndies win out. That'd be... well, not good. Anywho, I'm from Oregon but since I was in training in Montana at the time, they shoved me off into the 163rd Infantry Regiment, which is Montana National Guard, not exactly my first choice but oh well, right?"
"My youth is boring, so I won't go over it, pretty much your normal slightly impoverished family scratching it out in Eugene, pretty off and on schooling, which is good for my gender, thanks to Oregon being so open to gals like me. I had signed up for the Guard a few weeks after MacArthur legalized female enlistment via emergency decree with the growing instability and whatnot, and in about '39 I was at camp in Montana. There's really not much else to tell up to now though, my unit's meandered along the Missouri River off and on, and as of now we're in... Oi, Gerald, where're we at now?"
"Iowa! Just east of Omaha!"
"There ya have it, just east of Omaha in Iowa, smack up against the Syndies here. Wanna know something else? All you gotta do is ask me, d-..."
"Huh? I didn't talk about Americas First? Well, that's partly because I don't know much about em', and I don't see any of them up here in Iowa. From what I know though, they're pretty well entrenched in the south, Texas up to Virginia, kind of like a new Confederacy and I suspect equally racist. They're practically like... like... They're the most un-democratic of the pretender Americas. Huey Long means well, from what I can tell, but that doesn't matter now that he's up in open rebellion. They also probably have the second most professional army in this whole war, because they had a well trained party militia before the war, and it just sort of... transferred into their army. Plus, pretty sure Germany is sending them gear... I wish Germany sent me gear..."
Just a little bit of writing I did a while back idly- Sort of a perspective story from the PoV of a soldier enlisted with the US during KRs American Civil War chain.
*Forgive me if you like it, I'll likely not do more with it, but perhaps, if interest is there etc. etc. I finished my last playthrough with the Japanese so now I need something to do and this may be it.
"People always said that America was safe from the problems in the Old World. Things never carried over the ocean, it's too far, our government is too stable, so on so forth. But these same people have been wrong over and over. First they were wrong about the French resolve in the Weltkrieg. Then they were wrong about Russia's revolution. Next up they were wrong about England, or should I say the Union of Britain now. Really it's all just a mess. After the Germans won the Weltkreig, Europe spiraled into chaos. Or at least England and France did."
"Because England was so absolutely starved and drained, the people had no will to work. But the government wanted work, so they tried to force it. They sent soldiers cut from the same cloth to get the workers back in order, and from there on you can tell what happened. Anarchy spread when the Army mutinied, and the pride of the British nation, the Royal Navy followed suit. With nothing else to do, the Royal Family fled up to our north, into good ol' Canada, and that's where they are today. The French went the same way, just far far earlier. Practically the moment the Germans pulled out of Paris they went to shit. The government-in-exile in North Africa remains convinced the people in Metropolitan France are being tortured under radical Syndicalism. Now, I'm not the most well educated, you know how it can be for a girl to get into school, so bear with me here."
"Now, Europe outside of Germany's sphere of... friends? No no, puppets, is a mess. The moment you leave Mitteleuropa, you find yourself somewhere unstable. Austria-Hungary, the Balkans, Spain, and god forbid you go to Russia. The communists may have been stomped out way back, but Russia is only standing on it's large military. From what I'm told, there's at least four well organized groups all trying to muscle for their plan for Russia. Anyways, you'd think that with all this in Europe, things in America would be hunky dory. Right? Well, not really. Since England and France lost, and the USA was invested in both of them heavily, she lost a lot of money and labor. This meant a lot of debt, and in turn a lot of disgruntled, unemployed laborers. I think you can tell where this goes, somewhat. Throughout the 20's and 30's, little was done to solve this, and in fact successive Presidents pretty much followed the Free Market ideas to the letter. This... well, this allowed the local Syndicalist movement, led by Jack Reed to grow it's membership, almost to alarming levels. And while in the north this was happening, the south was equally active. Huey Long and the America First party detested all forms of left-wing ideology, and went as far as to form an armed paramilitary group, one I see often in my service, the Minutemen."
"Where am I from? That's kind of a silly question, isn't it? I'm from the USA, right? Seriously though, I was from Oregon before it went out and joined the Pacific States with California and Washington. They're mostly alright though, got an agreement with MacArthur's government to not step in on the war no matter what, least so far that seems to be the case. Does it bother me to fight for a country I don't live in? Sure, somewhat, but after this is all done with I like to think Oregon and the west will come back. I mean, once it's all said and done one way or the other it's not like they could say no. Same with New England. Though I don't think they'd give up, or Canada would let them go if the Syndies win out. That'd be... well, not good. Anywho, I'm from Oregon but since I was in training in Montana at the time, they shoved me off into the 163rd Infantry Regiment, which is Montana National Guard, not exactly my first choice but oh well, right?"
"My youth is boring, so I won't go over it, pretty much your normal slightly impoverished family scratching it out in Eugene, pretty off and on schooling, which is good for my gender, thanks to Oregon being so open to gals like me. I had signed up for the Guard a few weeks after MacArthur legalized female enlistment via emergency decree with the growing instability and whatnot, and in about '39 I was at camp in Montana. There's really not much else to tell up to now though, my unit's meandered along the Missouri River off and on, and as of now we're in... Oi, Gerald, where're we at now?"
"Iowa! Just east of Omaha!"
"There ya have it, just east of Omaha in Iowa, smack up against the Syndies here. Wanna know something else? All you gotta do is ask me, d-..."
"Huh? I didn't talk about Americas First? Well, that's partly because I don't know much about em', and I don't see any of them up here in Iowa. From what I know though, they're pretty well entrenched in the south, Texas up to Virginia, kind of like a new Confederacy and I suspect equally racist. They're practically like... like... They're the most un-democratic of the pretender Americas. Huey Long means well, from what I can tell, but that doesn't matter now that he's up in open rebellion. They also probably have the second most professional army in this whole war, because they had a well trained party militia before the war, and it just sort of... transferred into their army. Plus, pretty sure Germany is sending them gear... I wish Germany sent me gear..."
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