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 ****Fin's Father****
-There in the dark sat a man.  He had a bushy grey beard and unkempt grey hair.  On top of his head (hiding his bald spot) was a worn hat reading "United States of America".  It was a relic from a bygone time.
+There in the dark sat a man.  He had a bushy grey beard and unkempt grey hair.  On top of his head (hiding his bald spot) was a worn hat reading ////United States of America////.  It was a relic from a bygone time.
 The man's name was Zach.  He had a terminal condition; blood cancer.  He had less than 2 months to live.  Strangely enough, this didn't scare him but instead brought freedom to him.  He decided to choose his own exit from this world.
-So much time he'd seen wasted in his 73 years.  So much history that was now being rewritten.  When did it all go wrong?  There really wasn't one specific cause; like many great tragedies, there were a lot of factors.  This "Republic of America" was a poor shadow of the "United States of America" he'd grown up in.
+So much time he'd seen wasted in his 73 years.  So much history that was now being rewritten.  When did it all go wrong?  There really wasn't one specific cause; like many great tragedies, there were a lot of factors.  This "////Republic of America//// was a poor shadow of the ////United States of America//// he'd grown up in.
-It was the federalization, he supposed.  Sure, Lincoln forced a torn country back together; history taught that.  But maybe it should have been left to separate; perhaps it set a dangerous precedent.  Many years later it was Roosevelt that through many federal programs helped pull the country back up from its depression.  As time went on, more & more federal laws trumped state laws.  The inept federal government continually failed to balance the budget; more & more, the debt was owed to China.  They held the debt, and therefore, the purse strings, eventually.  When North Korea finally completely lost all sense, annexed part of the old Russia and tried to take a piece of its ally, China, China had to fight back.  It only made sense they would call on America.
+It was the federalization, he supposed.  Sure, Lincoln forced a torn country back together; history taught that.  But maybe it should have been left to separate; perhaps it set a dangerous precedent.  Many years later it was Roosevelt that through many federal programs helped pull the country back up from its depression.
+As time went on, more & more federal laws trumped state laws.  The inept federal government continually failed to balance the budget; more & more, the debt was owed to China.  They held the debt, and therefore, the purse strings, eventually.  When North Korea finally completely lost all sense, annexed part of the old Russia and tried to take a piece of its ally, China, China had to fight back.  It only made sense they would call on America.
 Besides, as China shifted its manufacturing to wartime, the cheap products Americans had so grown accustomed to were suddenly not available.  It started tipping the American economy toward another depression.  The American government was happy to send troops to support China, and help divert part of its out-of-work populace to a war.  But never had a war been won with such a bittersweet victory.  No one would ever be born on the Korean peninsula ever again.
+Those vets that came back did not come back to jobs.  An economic depression had set in during a war and stayed after its end.  This was unprecedented.  The federal government started forcing resources from the states that had done their due diligence and ran their part of the country correctly.  Succession suddenly became the new buzzword.  Through a rash of sudden terrorist acts and then state governments deploying troops to keep federal troops out, things hit a boiling point.  While Americans were pointing guns at Americans and all refusing to pull the triggers, behind the scenes federal agents took custody of ////traitors////.  State governments fell.  Troops withdrew and went home.  The stock market closed.
-Those vets that came back did not come back to jobs.  An economic depression had set in during a war and stayed after its end.  This was unprecedented.  The federal government started forcing resources from the states that had done their due diligence and ran their part of the country correctly.  Succession suddenly became the new buzzword.  Through a rash of sudden terrorist acts and then state governments deploying troops to keep federal troops out, things hit a boiling point.  While Americans were pointing guns at Americans and all refusing to pull the triggers, behind the scenes federal agents took custody of "traitors".  State governments fell.  Troops withdrew and went home.  The stock market closed.
+International trade stuttered, and for once, the federal government actually acted.  It was suddenly proclaimed that we were not the ////United States OF America////, but that the United States ////AR////America.
-International trade stuttered, and for once, the federal government actually acted.  It was suddenly proclaimed that we were not the United States OF America, but that the United States ARE America.
 In the name of balancing budgets, state governments were replaced by the federal government.  Most of the actual employees kept their jobs and kept doing what they were doing; it was just the name on their paycheck changed.  All the state politicians were suddenly unemployed.  Not that anyone really missed them... And so, it was time for a Presidential Election.  One candidate promised to 'restore' the states' rights.  The other promised to 'streamline government, getting rid of waste and making sure all laws were equal'.  And that's how President Yamamoto won the election.