And if something really bad was to happen then Randy would be a little better off then the rest of the people who didn't stock up on food and supplies. Although Randy did not know this at the time the alcohol would come in handy with cleaning open wounds since there wouldn't be any more pharmacy stores, or any stores for that matter when the nuclear bombs hit. When Randy got home Malachai, a young black boy who does chores for Randy, helped him unload his supplies. While they were unloading the supplies Randy informed Malachai of what his brother had told him. I like the fact that friends" pull together knowing that there are going to be rough times ahead. Randy then paid Malachai his twenty dollars for his weekly chores and gave him an extra $200 for supplies. As Malachai was leaving, Elizabeth McGovern, also know as Lib, is Randy's girlfriend, pulled up. Randy told her what Mark had said to him. Lib then went home and told her parents, who thought she was absolutely crazy. It is hard for some people to believe that anyone would want to go to war with the infamous United States, and Lib's parents were some of those people. I would find it hard to believe if someone thought that they could go to war with us and win, so why would they even try. Then Dan Gunn stopped by, the local doctor. Randy also filled him in on the information he received from his brother and Dan then filled out some prescriptions for Randy and Lib in case of an emergency. This was clever thinking on Randy's part because it is always good to keep extra medicine around incase of an emergency. It would be ridiculous for someone to die of an infection when it could have been prevented. That night the Americans made a huge mistake. A pilot named Peewee Cobb was flying a fighter plane with instructions to shoot down any snooper planes in sight. When he spotted one he fired and at the last possible second the snooper plane shut off its engine and the missile then went after a train and blew it up (71).