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2. A plaque, huh?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 08:54 AM

Mar 2016

I suggest the text on the plaque be written by the descendants of the slaves that soldier was fighting to keep down.

Or just melt down the symbol of racism and repurpose it into a plowshare.

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