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6 One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of
paltry decorum.

Sir Walter Scott

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of
men live content.

Niccold Machiavelli

7 The Beginning

After years of government waste, government lies, and the almost-total
control of its citizens, the United States of America was teetering on
the brink of collapse. But it was not alone. All the great nations of
the world-the superpowers, as they were called back then-were in
trouble. The reasons were many and varied.

War, it seemed, was the only way out. Thin the population. Once the war
talk started, it could not be stopped. When the war came, and it erupted