Don’t turn your back on the Wolfpack - A Spinoff of the Protect and Survive TL

At the first instant, I thought of Jamestown, Virginia.... Take that, Pocahontas!!!

I might have missed that, but for how long have our Iranian fellows have been in America?
 

stalkere

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At the first instant, I thought of Jamestown, Virginia.... Take that, Pocahontas!!!

I might have missed that, but for how long have our Iranian fellows have been in America?

I kind of glossed over it, but was going to expand on it a bit later - basically, Pehruz's father was influential, import-export business, some oil money, but leveraged it into many things.
Pehruz is the fourth son of six, so, while smart, no real expectations, other than "be sucessful" - particle physicist is within father's idea of sucessful...and, since Maryam had a brain, getting an education for her was not a bad idea, either, and easiest in the West.
For various reasons, there was, and still is, a sizable Iranian expatriate community in Buffalo, in the University District.

The folks the Rahman's are modeled after. came to the US in '78, He got into the Master's Program in Physics at UB, and then went after his Doctorate - actually, after I was already into writing this story, I realized I had screwed up, as he would have been in Post Doctoral by the time of this story, but I think I'll let it stand.
 
Thank you for the background. Was I was after is that after several years they would be quite aware of the role of an American Sheriff. Actually, after watching several John Wayne movies. ;)

Or the Iranians were just mocking their hosts. :cool:
 

stalkere

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Thank you for the background. Was I was after is that after several years they would be quite aware of the role of an American Sheriff. Actually, after watching several John Wayne movies. ;)

Or the Iranians were just mocking their hosts. :cool:

Well, no, you watch John Wayne movies, or just about any American television or movie, the Sheriff is portrayed in a manner that almost totally contradicts anything I've ever seen in real life.

Basically, I've never seen a Sheriff wearing a uniform - except on television -any Sheriff I've ever seen was always wearing a suit, about like a city police commissioner. The Sheriff's Deputies all pretty much act like City cops, other than the fact that they wear a different looking hat.

Pretty much the only practical difference is that the County Sheriff's Deputies provide Law Enforcement in the Rural Areas, the Police Departments do Law Enforcement in the Cities and Suburbs.

And - actually, if they'd been living in Amherst and staying near the City of Buffalo - they might not have seen or interacted with the County Sheriff's Department very much at all. They might have seen the cars - and since those are black-and-white, just like all the other police cars, would you notice what it says on the side?

edit - I see you're from Germany - I'm not even sure what the equivalent structure would be in Germany, or if there is such a structure. Even when I try to explain it, it sounds a bit bizarre to me, and I've lived with it for most of my life.
 
Hello Stalkere!

Thanks for answering. I think we get each other's points.

Well, when I was a very small kid growing up in the 80s, I thought that all American policemen had the same name: Lou.

As in Lou Tennant.

So much about learning from TV (I don't even remember which show gave me that idea!).

The structure in Germany is very different with the police being state run (with a few exceptions such as the BKA which are run by the Federal Republic), but not on lower levels. So there is no campaigning for the sheriff office (Germans generally elect very few "people" directly).
 
In Hope

Oddly enough the one thinf I have seen across all of the very excellent P&S story lines is an undoubted sense of hope. Hope that the worst can have it's impact softened and a hope that the future can be a good one regardless of the sheer horrors that the future will throw at them. I also live in hope of another update as I am quite addicted :D Thank you for such excellent work
 
:D Would not be hard to believe - the two cities are not that far apart, and both were spared from conventional bombing - which made them good spots for refugees. My grandfather was from Hiroshima, but my grandmother had relatives near Nagasaki, too. Grandfather was killed in the attack, but grandmother was visiting relatives on Shikoku. After the attack on Hiroshima, she and my mother took a boat to Beppu, on Kyushu, where they had relatives. My mother was in Fukuoka the following week, so she saw the Nagasaki mushroom cloud, also.

I had no idea you have Japanese ancestry. I hope your mother only witnessed the cloud and didn't have any health problems from fallout. :(

BTW, great story you have here. Great addition to the P&S universe !
 
This is so good!

I am posting this for selfish reasons, so I'll have an easy way to find it when I check my posts versus scrolling through subscriptions which I have a gajillion of.

And, let's face it, anyone who hasn't read it just might enjoy it. I am providing that opportunity for them if I happen to be making this skyrocket to the top of the list, eh?

Note to self, I am on the first page, towards the bottom, they are about to prepare to go out with the decade-old Bronco...



Edit: Stalkere's last activity, according to his "profile" page, was February 27th, 2012. I am sad he got banned. I wonder if he's posting elsewhere?


Edit2: Went to this thanks to Petike's very useful page http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/timelines/protect_and_survive
 
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