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The A.M. Update

The Conscientious Objectors That Put Us to Shame | 5/29/23

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

Daily News, News, Politics

4.9833 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This has always been a farming community and folks here, we want to keep it that way. There's a saying that a farmer's last crop is housing.

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When they get to the end of the farm's life, they sell it and develop it.

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With solar projects, that's one more crop they can harvest,

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generating a stable income for them and tax revenue for our community.

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We would hate to see this place become another suburbia, and this way we don't have to.

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A solo farm is still a farm, and that's what we want around here.

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Fuel for Thought, presented by the American Clean Power Association.

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It's Tuesday, May 5, 1868. Flowers are in full bloom. Across the 37 states, the stench of a brutal and bloody civil war still

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fills the nation's nostrils, and it's time to remember those who gave their all. Next on the AM

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update. Three years after the Civil War ended on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union Veterans, the Grand Army of the Republic,

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established Decoration Day as a time for the Nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers.

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Major General John A. Logan declared it should be May 30th.

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It's believed the date was chosen because those flowers would be in bloom all over the country.

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The first large observance was held that year at Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

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The ceremonies centered around the morning-draped veranda of the Arlington Mansion, once the home of General Robert E. Lee.

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Various Washington officials, including General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, presided over the ceremonies.

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