Today we take a closer look at our protagonist. History will remember Daniel Cho as George Washington for the whole planet. A war hero who first defeated the demons and then liberated humanity from the tyrrany of the angels, Daniel became the president of the first global government, solidified world peace in his two terms of office and then dedicated the rest of his life to the Envoy Project, which would eventually take humans to the stars. Terran Republic President Emeritus Daniel Cho died at the age of 91, shortly after seeing the Envoy launch and leave our solar system.
That’s history. But all Daniel really wanted was to be left alone.
Daniel Cho was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of first generation Korean immigrants. His parents ran a small neighborhood grocery, where Daniel worked in his youth along with his two younger sisters. Instilled by his folks with a strong work ethic and a love of learning, Daiel graduated high school with honors and went on to study medicine at Stanford. He was going to be a doctor.
It happened during his residency. Daniel was doing a rotation in the ER at Oakland General on a Saturday night. A monster of a thunderstorm had power lines down and roads out all over the city, adding even more carange to the usual gang violence that poured into the ER.
Shorthanded, Daniel and a new, terrified nurse were the only ones available to deal with a young woman delivered by the paramedics. She was eight months pregnant and the victim of a hit and run. Daniel worked for almost six hours to stabilize her, but lost both the patient and the baby as dawn broke Sunday morning and the storm lifted. Looking at the dual flatlines, Daniel decided he wasn’t cut out to play God and walked out of the ER and away from his life. Moving to Washington, DC, Daniel started a new career as an EMT. He still got to help people, got to use his medical training, but no one expected him to work miracles. His life was quiet, solitary and uneventful until the day he spotted a man with a fatally crushed chest walking away from a three car pileup, which is where our tale really begins.
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Perhaps because it’s been a while since I read BHH, but I don’t understand why Daniel would move to D.C. from Oakland? Cost of living is about the same, and it’s proximity to anything remotely appealing is greater by at least an order of magnitude.
Simple, it as all the way across the freakin’ country. When you want to start you life over, it helps to have completely different surroundings.
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