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Statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee coming down in Virginia

by Sarah RankinDenise Lavoie
| September 8, 2021 4:03 AM

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — After years of resistance and a long court battle, one of America’s largest monuments to the Confederacy was being pulled from its prominent perch in Virginia’s capital city Wednesday.

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