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A second civil war?

couple of months ago, we met some friends at a winery in Antietam, Maryland, site of one of the last and certainly bloodiest battles of our Civil War. Driving its rolling hills, I was reminded why I don’t ever visit any of the Civil and Revolutionary War battlefields that dot this area: because thinking about war is depressing, and since there are more than enough present armed

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