As your president and commander in chief, it is with a heavy heart that I’m informing you that we have made a strategic decision to surrender to the alien invaders known as the Combine.
Right now this is the best chance of survival as Americans and as humans. This has been the hardest decision of my life, and I did not do so lightly. As Americans, and indeed as human citizens, we have never willingly surrendered to oppression. At this very idea is anathema to our core values and everything that we hold dear,
yet the fact and hard truth remains that we lost this battle for now, and believe we will fight another day. We shall return. God bless you, and god bless the United States of America.
