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HFRN

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4. 'But the state of my birth fought under the Confederate flag.'

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Thu Aug 13, 2015, 06:48 PM

Aug 2015

well, mine didn't

my non-slave state had young men die in a fight to free people they never enslaved

'When it's on you, it's on you."

if you feel it's 'on you', that's you business - but don't wag your finger at me

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