rõ ràng. Paine và Jefferson và tất cả những người yêu nước khác đang theo dõi qua vai của chúng tôi. Lời nói của họ tiếp tục truyền cảm hứng cho chúng ta hôm nay. Các linh hồn của những người đàn ông và phụ nữ đã rời trang trại của họ và các tàu thuyền đánh cá và đầu ra để đối đầu với đế quốc Anh hùng mạnh, | unequivocally. Paine and Jefferson and all the other patriots are watching over our shoulders. Their words continue to inspire us today. The spirits of those men and women who left their farms and fishing boats and headed out to confront the mighty British Empire and of those who fought to emancipate the slaves during the Civil War and of those who sacrificed their lives to protect the world from fascism speak to us. As do the spirits of the ones who stayed at home and produced the food and clothes and gave their moral support and of all the men and women who have defended what was won on those battlefields the teachers poets artists entrepreneurs health workers the manual laborers. you and me. The hour is ours. It is now time for each and every one of us to step up to the battle line to ask the important questions to search our souls for our own answers and to take action. The coincidences of your life and the choices you have made in response to them have brought you to this point. Epilogue 225 JOHN 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 PERKINS PERSONAL HISTORY Graduates prep school enters Middlebury College. Befriends Farhad son of an Iranian general. Drops out of Middlebury. Works for Hearst newspapers in Boston. Enters Boston University College of Business Administration. Marries former Middlebury classmate whose Uncle Frank is a top-echelon executive at the National Security Agency NSA . Profiled by the NSA as an ideal economic hit man. With Uncle Frank s blessing joins the Peace Corps and is assigned to the Ecuadorian Amazon where ancient indigenous tribes battle . oil companies. Lives in the rain forest and the Andes. Experiences firsthand the deceitful and destructive practices employed by oil companies and government agencies and their negative impacts on local cultures and environments. In Ecuador meets vice president of international consulting firm MAIN who is also an NSA liaison officer. Joins MAIN undergoes clandestine training in .
