I am a descendent of two Hoosiers who fought in the American Civil War. Two of my great-great-grandfathers enlisted in Indiana regiments to preserve the United States.
When an emerging Republican congressional “leader” – U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia – used “Presidents Day” to call for a “national divorce,” my first instinct was to take this offense personally.
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