Matt had to destroy the rocket because it
was a symbol of evil that had brought economic
disaster. But must he also destroy—the future?
Perhaps that's because the President was hanged on the White House
lawn the day after he called you. Quite a mob was there. The food pinch
was just beginning to be felt. And that was forty-seven days ago—" He
glanced up at the Colonel's white face. "Oh, I'm not lying to you. It
happened. Have you had any communications recently?"
Look, the people don't know all the reasons for the collapse. They don't know the whole picture—but they know one thing. They know they've been taxed beyond endurance, their gasoline has been requisitioned, their boys taken for military and labor service, their money devaluated again and again so that the government could get a Rocket off the Earth before the Asians did. And they know that now the whole world has fallen in a heap, and they're starving to death. And they know that this Rocket was being worked on when the crash came.
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