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I picked these acorns from the ground on Little Round Top on the Gettysburg Battlefield. I thought about the oak trees from which they’d fallen had grown nourished by the blood of the Union soldiers who had fallen there.
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I thought I would stop writing a weekly column for newspapers, but after trying it for a couple of weeks, I’ve come back to posting one each week. One of the papers has a website that carries them, so just search out Mandan News to read them.