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Amy Bennett Williams Essays

Confederate Memorial Day

Next Wednesday will mark Confederate Memorial Day in Florida.  The holiday recognizes the roughly 258,000 Confederate soldiers who died in the line of duty during the American Civil War.  That’s prompted this week’s essay from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams looking back on her own son’s time in elementary school and reflecting on some of the historic portraits that hung to walls of his school.

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