While I enjoyed your article of 1/16/01 about the Freedom Train I must ask about the reference to "the most trying times of the civil rights movement."
I am sure that you are aware of the period from 1861 to 1865 when more American Men died in war than any other war before or since.
While the politics of the governments waging this war may have had many interests the vast majority of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic had no interest, finical or political in the preservation of the union. However they were very aware of the horror and total injustice of slavery as it existed in the United States at the time.
And thousands of these men laid down their lives to end this abomination. I think we do them a disservice by forgetting or downgrading the sacrifice of so many citizens in the effort to gain a great step toward the equality still being sought for today.
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Keep the discussion civilized. Absolutely NO personal attacks or insults directed toward writers, nor others who make comments.
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