Yankee Determinism

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 "e;duty-to-save-some-foreign-nation called"e; 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 "e;common wealth"e; ...