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Ben Raines had gathered his Rebels around him and started all over, in
the Deep South. When they had their sector cleaned out and running
smoothly, the Rebels began the job of sweeping out the nation, coast to
coast, and border to border. It would take them years.

And down in isolated areas of South America, Field Marshal Jesus Dieguez
Mendoza Hoffman continued building and training his army of Nazis,
staying low and out of sight. Their time would come. They waited.

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Now it was time for Ben Raines and his Rebels, and Field Marshal Hoffman
and his NAL to meet.

The battleground: North America.

The stakes: Freedom.

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Chapter One

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion ...
in private self-defense."

John Adams

Ben Raines stood alone-as alone as the Rebels would ever let him
be-looking south from his temporary CP in Texas. Everything was packed
up in Hummers and cars and trucks, and his personal company of Rebels
were ready for him to give the word. Ben was dressed in denim work
shirt, jeans, and lace-up boots. Gone were the famous tiger stripe BDUs
of the Rebels. Every Rebel now dressed in civilian clothing. Their
uniforms had been laundered and packed away in plastic bags and stored
in the Rebels' many underground bunkers, located all over the lower
forty-eight.

For the moment, Texas was clean of any members of Hoffman's
goose-stepping, black-shirted NAL. But Ben knew that was about to
change, and that change was more than likely only moments away.

This upcoming fight came as no surprise to Ben, for he had always
predicted-even years before the Great

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War, back when the world was more or less stable-that the final action
was going to take place on American soil. Only who they were fighting
came as any surprise to him.