Here We Go Again...

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One of my snow bird volunteers just returned to Surratt House after a winter in Florida. She brought back a clipping from a Florida newspaper about a dispute that's brewing in the Florida state parks system over a proposed monument to Union soldiers at the site of the largest Civil War battle in Florida - the Battle of Olustee.

It seems that the park is surrounded by a rural community where most families have lived for generations. "Putting a Union monument at Olustee would be like placing a memorial to Jane Fonda at the entrance to the Vietnam Memorial" was the comment of one resident, a wounded veteran of Vietnam.