[ WP ] The USA is having its second Civil War .

After the confederate war flag was taken down and multiple southern civil war memorials were destroyed the South whipped into yet another rage. The governor of Texas managed to assemble most of the southern states to make a massive and violent push at the North. Not even California was safe from this league of southern states and there opposition was quickly and violently extinguished. 
 
 The North was forced to open the draft to fight this new enemy. Women and children were drafted the day they turned 18 and those who wanted to fight jumped the draft early. It was Vietnam all over again but on U.S. soil. This is where I come in. 
 
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 My name is Justin, and a soldier for the North. I was born on a small plot of land in southern New Hampshire. I grew up hunting and fishing the water and woods near my home. I was just getting out of highschool when the war struck. I was drafted almost immediately after graduating forcing me to leave my family and girlfriend. I was late to the early draft as my CO would say. This was because of the crippled army we were running out of guns and had to use anything we owned. I had my 45-70 Henry lever action rifle and a SIG P226. The rest is a blur up to this day, today was the battle of Virginia. 
 
 
 I was set up on top of what I can only assume was an apartment building before the shelling of the city. My task was to watch over a small squad of new soldiers. I sat scanning the area with my binoculars. Suddenly a gunshot rang out breaking the eerie silence. The squad leaders voice came screaming over the radio. 
 
 “ Man down, man down, Jesus it was Craig. ” 
 
 I raised my rifle looking for the source of the shot. In the building across from mine about 400m away I saw the unmistakable glint of a sniper scope. I waited for him to raise his head again. It must have been 5 minutes before I saw there head and when I did I did n't hesitate. The 45-70 from my rifle blew most of his head off leaving only the rest of his body hunched over his rifle. I radioed into the squad and told them it was all clear and to head up to the roof of that building for med evac. I also jokingly told them to grab me the other sniper ’ s rifle not thinking they actually would. When I made my way back to base the next day I had a bloody AR-38 sitting in my bunk. Little did I know that rifle would be my curse and blessing. 
 
 
 It was 3 days later and I was set up in an office building that had been mostly spared from the shelling. My orders were to report any activity and do not shoot. I had since cleaned up my new rifle and I was peering through the scope at the city below. There was fighting all around the South had really stepped up there efforts. A sudden whooshing noise snapped me out of my day dream and I had just enough time to duck under a desk before an RPG round exploded on the floor just below me. 
 
 “ Shit! How the fuck did they find me? ” I thought as I was reaching for my rifle. 
 
 
 The stock had started to glow and pulse so I tore the side panel off to find some kind of transponder. 
 
 “ Fucking great they had a tracker on this rifle they knew somebody would get greedy and take it. ” 
 
 I tore the little transponder out and smashed it with a chair leg. 
 
 
 I wo n't go into the details but I am alive that is all that matters. Wait shit an air raid alarm fuck me. 
 
 
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 The war ended in 2020 with the UN, Canada, and Germany joined the war effort in the North ’ s favor. 
 
 The battle of Virginia ended in a high yeild nuclear device codenamed the thresher was detonated. 
 
 
 Corporal Justin Higgs was found two years later in Washington state. It is unclear how he survived the thresher explosion or how he ended up in Washington state. He went on to fight in the California front and currently resides in Mount Vernon Vermont. 
 
 
 After the South's repeat defeat in 2020 Texas governer Gregg Abbot was executed for his warcrimes. 
 
 
 Virginia no longer exists. 
 
 Edit: this is my first submission to this sub ever be gentle
