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   Hi Alexander -- on Oct 14 2019 at 10:12, you wrote:   
      
   AK> In "The Great Catsby", by F.Scott Fitzerald, I read this:   
      
                     Gatsby   
      
   AK> sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale   
   AK> hardware business that my father carries on to-day. ----- The end of   
   AK> the citation -----   
      
   AK> What is "a substitute to the Civil War"?   
      
   In that time, people with money and/or influence could send someone to the   
   civil war instead of serving themselves. Not particularly honourable, perhaps,   
   but that's how it was done!   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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