Glory to Our Avalon: Part I



Glory to Our Avalon is a chapter in When the Cold Breeze Blows Away. In this chapter, Edward John Smith tells Su Ji-Hoon about how Vietnam became the first country to recognize the Republic of Avalon's establishment, just happened a day after the signing of the constitution of the Republic of Avalon.

Transcript
IT WAS A SUNNY TUESDAY MORNING in Titanic City when I woke up from bed. I was in a military uniform (minus my jacket) when I was asleep inside a guest bedroom in Astor House. The national anthem of the Republic of Avalon, "Glory to Our Avalon," was playing instrumentally, and it sounded like the anthem of the now-defunct Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, composed by Gustav Ernesaks.

"Good morning, Avalon!" said a radio host à la Good Morning, Vietnam. "Happy Tuesday! Now, it's time for some morning news."

Captain Smith and I looked at a plain navy blue banner with the coat of arms of the Republic of Avalon in it, similar to the emblem of the former Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, except the star is white with a red line drawn in it, reflecting that it was a reference to the former White Star Line. The hammer and sickle is replaced by a crown to reflect that this country traced its origins from a old-timey British cruise ship, the RMS Titanic, of which the two banners replace the USSR state motto in both Estonian and Russian into "Glory to Our Avalon!" in English, French, Spanish, Irish and Dutch, the four official languages. The middle-bottom banner bears the words "Republic of Avalon" too. The coniferous branch is even replaced by a coral branch to reflect the RMS Titanic and her maiden voyage to New York which was thankfully turned into something special to save humanity from extinction due to a large-scaled biological/chemical/nuclear war.