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MRE rations – ‘Meals Ready to Eat,’ not ‘Meals Rejected by Ethiopians,’ as some less politically-correct soldiers described them. Which, when Trapp thought about it, was pretty much every soldier he had ever met.
Once a man can be bought, his loyalty is temporary, and only owed to the highest bidder. And that is not always – or even often – the United States of America.
Nash looked out across the House chamber. The representatives, senators, and onlookers were staring up at him with barely disguised horror. They had never thought themselves personally at risk. Danger was for other people. These politicians lived in a bubble of wealth and gilded privilege, and the idea that
someone had planned to puncture that was almost too difficult for them to believe. Perhaps that was the message the terrorists were trying to convey – whether they knew it or not. It was the message that Nash had received. He was going to shake up this town. Not in the way the terrorists intended. And not tonight. But he was going to get America working for her people again, rather than the people working for the benefit of the men and women who inhabited places like this.
