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Unread 05-12-2025, 02:06 PM   #19
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Speaking of which...to show how things have changed: I went to high school at Lee-Davis, home then to the Confederates (School Song -- Dixie). While attending art school at VCU in Richmond, I lived on Monument Ave., and walked by the many statues of Confederate honorees. All now gone. I'm not "stumping" the issues here, or promoting any side, as I know there is still a great deal of pain surrounding all sides of the war among Americans, but things have changed in my home state.

A change I do strongly decry, however, is the one that replaced the wonderful woods and swamps where I hunted squirrels and deer near my home of Williamsburg, is now Busch Gardens...and a heck of a lot more people than when I wandered the hills and bottoms with gun in hand.
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