Confederate flag flyers spit on the graves of the Minnesota First (LTTE)

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... When a citizen of southeast Minnesota flies or displays the Confederate flag, he or she not only apologizes for slavery and the continued mistreatment of African-Americans today, but is a symbolic traitor to the United States of America—the Union—and spits on the graves of the brave men of the Minnesota First and the cause for which they volunteered, fought, and died.

http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/opinion/letters/tessa-schweitzer-confederate-flag-flyers-spit-on-the-graves-of/article_94b456a8-6aa9-5079-98bd-efe54a7712a0.html

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1. s4p

So very sad.

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2. Finding my country is such a long strange trip

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3. We lost her.

I hope we find her again.

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4. a bright star, seen in the distance by eyes half-blinded by dust; rumors of a golden city

just beyond the hills on the horizon; that vision in a quiet moment between fighting fires sweeping across grassy prairie; an old beloved voice you might hear again when sitting with friends, but when you turn, surprised, the chair there is still empty; and moses, with his raggle-taggle gypsies finally safe across that one desert, buried in an unmarked grave