Dedication

This book is dedicated to all those who defend our freedom in all five continents of this earth, with the sword, not the pen.

PRO-CRUS’TES (prō-krŭs’tēz) (Gr. Antiq.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut off their legs to adapt them to its length — whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes. — Webster’s International Dictionary, 1902, p. 1142.