PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
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This issue of taking down Confederate monuments has been brewing for several years, since the tragic murder of nine African-Americans by white supremacist Dylann Roof, in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2015. This act was so revolting to even conservative white southerners as to prompt the Republican governor and legislature to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse. It then served as the impetus for a larger,
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