For several decades the rules of war had stressed avoiding collateral damage. The soldiers may not have always been successful, but they tried despite... the awful fog of war where it was difficult to tell friend from foe. Those who failed were prosecuted.Nuking a city that was filled with innocent bystanders sickened the American people. It terrified the international community, turned away allies and hardened the hatred felt by enemies. It was use of a weapon of mass destruction.Ed Taylor was. But tempered by my more knowing mind, I only took hold of her hand. She looked over at me and smiled, twining her fingers with mine. I was very glad I hadn’t gone with my thirteen year old body’s impulse!She showed me my cabin, and throughout the rest of the night as I considerately accomplished every task and duty about the ship that she suggested to me, I found that I had been pretty well schooled in the duties and functions of first mate. It wasn’t as if I had to scamper up the mast or. I know Willow wrote a bit about ours to her brother back when we first landed over a year ago. Wow, it's been a long time since we came. The island we are on is large considering that several people estimate that it was once the top of a volcano crater. One of the college prof corporals we have. Oh, Willow didn't write much about that, but we somehow ended up with seven college professors in our original team. Two died when tank five was destroyed, but we still have the others. They love to sit. The fact that the group had also gravitated away from just cans of soda to cans of beer from Jared’s refrigerator would have also played a major role in this escalation Coupled with that fact was the other fact that everyone was, of course, completely naked. This combination of pizza, beer and bare skin brushing against bare skin just made everyone feel very ‘touchy-feely’ indeed - and ‘touchy-feely’ they were going to get.When that little sliver of pepperoni plopped down from the sky onto.