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National Guard sleeping in the Capitol an echo of Civil War

by Allen G. Breed
| January 19, 2021 12:06 AM

To most Americans, the sight of armed National Guard troops sleeping in the Capitol Rotunda this past week was shocking and disturbing. To me, it was an echo of the far-distant past.

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