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down from his window.

GENERAL SORKIN'S TRUCK: As it speeds along the

grassy field adjacent the runway towards the mound of

earth surrounding the gaping cavity of the ultimate bomb.

ASTRIDE THE MILITARY TRANSPORT Major General

Sorkin is fixed on the rising-up neutron bomb ahead when

his attention turns to what appear to be the tips of black

steel forks emerging up from beneath the green turf on

the ground beside the wheels of the truck.

IN A FLASH: THE GROUND TREMBLES and General

Sorkin observes that on both sides of his vehicle the earth

is ripping apart and the forks are the staffs of CIVIL WAR

FLAGS held by HORSES AND RIDERS, CAVALRY OF

THE UNION on one side AND CONFEDERATE FORCES

on the other, bursting up as if arisen whole from the field

at Gettysburg.

As he looks from side to side on the truck he finds himself

at the head a CHARGE OF 5,000 HORSEMEN, led on the

one side by ROBERT E. LEE and on the other by

ULYSEES S.GRANT; Lee mounted on a pure white

stallion, Grant on a black stallion, both with sabers high,

followed by OFFICERS ON HORSEBACK with DRUMS

AND FIFES AND MARCHING INFANTRY numbering in

the TENS OF thousands almost reaching to the sky in the

distance, former American soldiers of all ranks and sides,

full gallop beside the truck on the field, charging forward,

joining the General as THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE

REPUBLIC INTERMINGLES WITH THE SOUNDS OF

“DIXIE” and we hear the distant VOICES OF SOL-

DIERS alternating the valorous songs of North and South,

a brilliantly shining army flowing like colorful streams of

soldier-saviors on both sides of modern military vehicle,