Virus H

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It can’t happen to us — but, brother, it’s going to. It has started. Walesville, Ohio, 30 miles from Portsmouth, was the first one. It will take a hell of a while because it’s a thorough job. It might not get to you for years. But it’s coming.

There were a little over 14 thousand people in Walesville. Plus, of course, those who were caught on their way through.

I’ve seen it. I don’t know when we’ll be printing pictures of it. But we probably will. And it will give you a hell of a jolt. I flew over Hiroshima back in September of ’45. I covered the Bengal famine in ’44 for AP. I once saw a pretty girl jump from a hotel window 23 stories above the concrete sidewalk. But I have seen Walesville. Compared to that, everything else I have ever seen has been like looking into the heart of a daffodil.

Just think of the arrogant stupidity of even our theories about the look and design of alien spacecraft — or about the construction of alien forms of life themselves. We assumed three-dimensional vehicles and three-dimensional forms of life.

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