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JUNETEENTH: The Black factor

| June 24, 2020 1:00 AM

I am a supporter of the Juneteenth National holiday initiative, but what troubles me is that mainstream media’s celebration of Junteenth has failed to mention that 360,222 Union soldiers died of all means unimaginable to end slavery for the good of the nation. Parenthetically, 40,000 of those Union soldiers were Black.

ROBERT CLIFF

Coeur d’Alene


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