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• Group battles to bring Civil War museum to life (South Side Journal)
  The American Civil War shaped the destiny of our nation. The epic struggle between the North and the South claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and its effects echoed throughout the world.
• Iraq war is tearing this country apart (Las Vegas Sun)
  Thu, Jul 24, 2008 (2:01 a.m.) What does winning in Iraq mean? I don’t know, but I do know the war is dividing people in America.
• He Gave His Chicle Gum Pop (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
  When Thomas Adams settled on Staten Island, N.Y., in the late 1800s, he already had been an inventor and Civil War photographer.
• War Crimes Trial Begins for Guantánamo Detainee (New York Times)
  A military judge opened the first American war crimes trial since World War II, culminating a nearly seven-year effort to try terror suspects held in the detention camp.
• War crimes trial begins for Guantánamo detainee (International Herald Tribune)
  A military judge opened the first American war crimes trial since World War II, culminating a nearly seven-year effort.
• "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals," by Jane Mayer ... (Nevada Appeal)
  "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
• Reenactors camp at Montpelier Aug. 1-3 (Orange County Review)
  There will be a living history Civil War Encampment at Montpelier on the weekend of August 1-3. Several reenacting units from the Central Virginia area will set up various different displays which will include weapons, uniforms,equipment, as well as music of the average Confederate soldier.
• City’s civil engineer helps to rebuild Iraq (The Mesquite News)
  Local civil engineer Col. Vince Saroni is representing Mesquite, and the United States, by serving as the Deputy Commander of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, USACE Gulf Region Division in Iraq.
• Grants enable site interpretation (Orange County Review)
  Civil War-era history in Orange County recently got a leg up on restoration, research and preservation. A project to develop an interpretive plan at Mine Run Battlefield now has $50,000 to use in building trails and signs to tell the story of the site’s role in history.
• My opinion Leonard J. Pitts Jr. : Book details slavery long after Civil War (Arizona Daily Star)
  This is how John Davis became a slave: He was walking one evening from the train depot in Goodwater, Ala., when a white man appeared in the road and demanded money.