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May 29, 1998

Another day with nothing in canon. Unofficially,

A landowner and his extended family arrive at the border of the Ho-Chunk tribal territory in west-central Wisconsin, demanding access to his family cabin which had been in his family for generations before being appropriated to house members of the Ho-Chunk tribe. He refuses to leave and tensions rise. One of his sons shoots the head of the checkpoint's militia force and the militiamen in overwatch positions in the trees open fire, killing all the adults and several of the children. The tribe adopts the children to raise as tribal members, unwilling to abandon them (the oldest is 7) in the chaos of post-nuclear America.

Word slowly spreads of the death of the last President of the United States. FEMA's Central Location Service, whose role is to continually track each successor at all times, to make sure all of them are never in the same place at the same time and locate the next successor in line, has broken down and it is unclear if any Senate-approved cabinet members remain alive. (The senior Senate-approved appointee in Virginia is the Acting Secretary of Agriculture, the former Deputy Director of the US Forest Service).

CIA agent David Hudson arrives at the British port of Sunderland, where he is dropped off by the CIA transport he is traveling on. During the voyage he is given a cover identity and a small amount of cash, allotted a month's leave following his long, arduous escape from the USSR, and ordered to begin rebuilding the CIA's network in the UK after he recovers.

As a third day of fighting continues in Ansbach, Germany, 16th Army commits a regiment, the 110th Guards Motor-Rifle, to reinforce the embattled 57th Motor-Rifle Division. The fighting in the city is a ruse, however, for as darkness falls the Soviet's main blow falls east and west of the city. Lead by several volleys of BM-21 and BM-27 rocket fire, the last of which contain HCN blood agent chemical rounds, artillery batters VII Corps' outposts. As the artillery fire diminishes the ground attack begins, the massed tanks of the 19th Guards and 20th Tank Divisions in the armored attack long feared by generations of American soldiers in Germany. The tank assault is successful, pushing back the pickets of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (to the west of the city) and a composite cavalry force composed of the 1st and 36th Division's divisional cavalry squadrons (the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry and 36th Cavalry Squadron (Composite), respectively) defending the city's eastern approaches.

The Soviet nuclear attack submarines - the damaged Akula-class K-154 and the Sierra-class K-231 - that had been operating in the South Atlantic arrive off Maputo, Mozambique. They are distressed to discover that the city's harbor was destroyed in December by South African nuclear bombs and that the surviving friendly shipping has also been sunk.