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As I was waiting patiently for my website to be restored to full function last week, I watched two movies: “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg.”  Looking at the country’s systemic racism spilling out into the streets today, we, as a nation, have yet to recover from the cause of the Civil War…slavery.  Compromises were made in our Congress before that conflict happened.  The Southern states were allowed to have slaves, to have militias to protect slave owners, and to use…..

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