By Chris Oakley

Chapter 3

WELCOME TO BRADENTON!

Our city is pleased to be assisting the National Reconstruction Bureau in its great effort to help this country recover from the horrific nuclear holocaust inflicted on its people and cities ten years ago...

TO: Jared Cranswell

FROM: Bradenton Police Department

Dear Mr. Cranswell,

In accordance with the National Post-Nuclear Recovery Act, we are sending you a list of known and suspected anti-NRB agitators in this city. These people may at some point approach you and try to convince you to abandon your commitments to the NRB program. It is strongly recommended that you avoid these people at all costs; if any of them should try to contact you, you are legally obligated to notify the appropriate authorities at once...

 

ABOLISH THE NRB!

The time is long past for us to put an end to the waste of money, resources, and human lives that agency represents! The cities which were destroyed ten years ago in the Third World War can never be rebuilt or inhabited again, yet our government, obstinately refusing to accept that hard fact, insists on trying to breathe life into that which can never be revived by any means in the foreseeable future...

CHARLESTON MERCURY

3 Local Residents Dead Of Radiation Poisoning

City Council Chairman Being Pressured By

Anti-NRB Activists

To: Jared Cranswell

From: Office of the Bradenton City Clerk

Enclosed with this letter you will find registration forms for enrolling an as eligible voter in Bradenton. Also enclosed are informational pamphlets with information about basic city services and how you can contact City Hall with any questions you may have regarding our city government....

 

 

To: Superintendent, Florida State Police

From: Security Affairs Office, National Reconstruction Bureau

Be advised that anti-NRB extremists in the Bradenton area are believed to be currently stockpiling guns and other weapons with an eye towards making attacks on NRB personnel and operations...

 

 

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND YOU:

An NRB Training Guide To The Basics Of Electrical Work & Repair

Dear Mr. Cranswell,

In regard to the status of your housing assignment for your tour of duty in Charleston following the completion of your training in Florida, we are pleased to inform you that we have located alternative living quarters for you. Further details will be made available to you shortly.

Valerie Burns

Director of Personnel Affairs, NRB South Carolina State Office

 

 

To: Jared Cranswell

From: National Reconstruction Bureau

South Carolina State Office

You have been assigned to the Palmetto Co-Operative Apartments in the southern section of Charleston following the completion of your training in Florida...

LOOK OUT FOR ANTI-N.R.B. AGITATORS!

If you see any person matching the description of the individuals mentioned in this week’s Advisory Bulletin, you are urged to call your local or state police immediately or contact the nearest available FBI office...

ST. MICHAEL’S CHURCH OF THE CAROLINAS WELCOMES YOU TO OUR PARISH!

Although more than ten years have passed since the tragic nuclear holocaust that devastated so much of our country, people are still as much in need of spiritual guidance today as they were in those first grim hours after the bombs were detonated. For a decade now, our Post-Atomic Survivors’ Ministry has been counseling people who’ve been spiritually wounded by the war and its aftermath...

A MESSAGE FROM THE NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION BUREAU

Trainees and labor personnel in the Southeast reason are advised to take every possible precaution to protect themselves against overexposure to the sun....

DEATH TO THE NRB!

The so-called National Reconstruction Bureau is sacrificing thousands of innocent people to the vanity of our federal government as it tries to make dead cities live again. The time for talking is over; what we need now is action to make our so-called leaders see reason...

DISPATCH/TOP PRIORITY

To: His Majesty’s Foreign Secretary, London

From: Consul General, Consulate of the United Kingdom in Atlanta

Sir:

One of my junior attachés has requested immediate medical leave. He has informed me, and independent examination by doctors has verified this, that he has contracted leukemia as a consequence of possible exposure to radiation during his recent tour of the Carolinas to assess the progress of the American government’s post-nuclear attack rebuilding programme in that region...

To: Jared Cranswell

From: National Reconstruction Bureau Southeast Regional Public Affairs Office Murfeesboro, Tennessee

Dear Mr. Cranswell,

Enclosed with this letter you will find your free copy of the informational booklet Charleston: What Every Incoming NRB Recruit Should Know About The City. We hope you will find it useful as you train in preparation for your future assignment in the Charleston area...