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    Yankee Determinism
    Yankee Determinism
    Yankee Determinism
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    Yankee Determinism

    By Patrice Stanton

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    The old man had lived there, on that plot of farm land, all his life. His parents before that, and on back to the days not but a few generations beyond the original Bay Colony. Well, there'd been the years when “duty-to-save-some-foreign-nation called” and he and the family's men before him had gone off to get shot at and shot up for good old Uncle Sam.

    To say this official “common wealth” land confiscation was a kick in the teeth, after all that, was an understatement. Its date was hand printed larger, even more neatly, than the rest of it. Oh, and it was highlighted orange. No missing it. And less than three weeks away...

    But seeing those words in black and white merely added a splash of fuel to a fire that had been kindled in his soul who-knows-how-many “election cycles” ago.

    He worried most about the two older kids. If the spark of hard-won Liberty was to survive, it wouldn’t be in their travel rucksacks. Nope. It’d have to be the youngest, little Eliza. But performing well in peacetime training, the old man knew, was far different than feeling the pressure of “the day.” She knew some of her stuff, but was it enough to keep her safe?

    He’d known deep down this day would come. Had hoped, though, he’d been six-feet-under and very cold by then.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrice Stanton
    Release dateJun 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301388295
    Yankee Determinism
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    Patrice Stanton

    Once in a blue moon I contribute things at this terrific site: (Since Spring 2013) http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/

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      Yankee Determinism - Patrice Stanton

      Yankee Determinism

      By Patrice Stanton

      copyright 2013 Patrice Stanton

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      Table of Contents

      Section 1 - The patriarch

      Section 2 - The town catch was a royal bass

      Section 3 - Try, try, again

      Section 4 - To fight another day

      Section 5 - Night games

      Section 6 - Departure: imminent

      Section 7 - Opposite of operational silence

      Section 8 - No hostiles

      Section 9 - Wyoming or Texas?

      About the Author

      1 – The patriarch

      Morning had long gone. Dappled sunlight shone directly on the south facing window panes of the front storm door to the main house.

      Hilltop Farm’s patriarch, old man Walters, checked his watch. Fresh out of patience, he charged back towards the house and whipped the doors open. In the driveway behind him the usual rural quiet was filled with the determined sputtering of his old gas-powered truck. The air began filling with its

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