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and respected him.
Ben stopped by a light tank and looked up at the
woman commander, her head sticking out of the open hatch.
"You sure you know how to drive this thing, Susie?"
He smiled with the verbal jab.
"Hell, no!" she fired back. "I just give the
orders."
Ben laughed and patted the armor plate of the tank in
reply and walked on.
The Rebels were made up of all races, all
nationalities, all religions. The Rebel army
knew no discrimination along racial, religious,
or country-of-origin lines. It was not tolerated.
Ben Raines had also taken the theory that women had
no place in combat and tossed it on the junk
pile.
The Rebels did discriminate against human trash
of any color, usually just as long as it took to put
a bullet in them. But there were no haters of people of
another race in the Rebel ranks. Of any
color. No pre-judging of a person based
solely on race or religion. The Rebels
took each person as an individual and reserved
judgment comif any-until later. Among the
Rebels, there were chaplains representing all
religions,
from Hindu to Seventh-Day Adventists. Whenever there
was a break in the action, most Rebels went to some
sort of worship service. It was not required that
they do so. Religion and the worshiping of one's God
was a personal matter and nobody else's
business.
Not everyone could or would comz was usually the case
comadapt to the Rebel way. The old Tri-States
had been harshly criticized because Ben had admitted
that perhaps no more than one person out of five-if that
many-could or would live under and by the simple rules that
the Rebels adopted. It was true that the Rebels
took the best of people and culled the rest. The rules were
simple. One did not steal anything, ever. One did
not lie or cheat. You treated others fairly
and with respect. You respected the land and the wild
creatures that lived there. You respected the
property of others. Loudmouths did not last long in
the Rebel army. Bullies seldom made it through
the first day. Those who were cruel to animals were not even
considered. The Rebels were not perfect comfar from it comb
they tried. That was what Ben demanded of himself, and he
could ask no more from those who followed him.
"Move, Smoot," Ben said, getting into the big