[ohhhh]

[Whittemore died eighteen years later at the age of ninety-six.]

He must have been ninety eight when he died. He was a soldier and a patriot that helped America become a great Christian nation, before the communist/atheist left began corrupting the nation from the inside in the halls of arrogant politicians.

[El Gato]

Whitemore was 96, 18 + 78 = 96. He was indeed a patriot. But he was only one of the Old Men of Menetomy, thought too old for the militia, who showed the British that they were not so old after all. (They, like George Washington, were veterans of the French and Indian War, and many skirmishes with the Indians.)

Notice too, that even though they were part of no organized militia unit, they were armed.