No one knows how it happened, why it happened, or even who started it. All we know is it did happen. My mother always told me, and still tells me how lucky we were, to be on this boat, sailing away from the horrors that were occurring on the mainland. The constant nuclear bombing and shelling slowly, not to mention unexpectedly made its way to America. The explosions didn't wait for anyone or anything. It just ate them up like they were nothing but flies, killing billions, upon billions of poor souls...