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| Ball's Bluff National Cemetery Leesburg, Virginia |
First, of course, is the dreadful toll that COVID-19 has taken on older people, notably (today) including those who were living in state veterans homes in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
The second and third thoughts are related and prompted by items in The New York Times. Yesterday's editorial page was (unusually) given over to a single editorial titled Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy? The piece question the naming of so many major U.S. military installations in honor of Confederate generals (Fts. Bragg, Hood, Gordon, Benning, Jackson, Pickett). The subtitle: "It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors."
Today, the paper has an equally thought-provoking article about the paucity of persons of color in the highest military ranks.
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