DL--
All he has to do is show up at the army center in his "true form" and I think some sort of exemption could be arranged...
About Julia ....Well everyone's scared of zombies because they kill you, that would be enough for Julia, but they also leave an overwhelming impression, even without that very popular brain-eating thing... I think you're probably getting at the fact that they have no special powers compared to what Julia has encountered before. She's seen lots of dead people. Zombies still have an impact over and above everything for most people. That's why they were saved for the big climaxes of Leviathans [spoiler] and summer 1970.[/spoiler]
(in the green sweater of true love)
ha... I found that as crazy as the coffin seemed at that point in Jeb's room, I almost just accepted it. I've been trained well by DS.