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A Message to My Babies

A Message to My Babies

My Time in Tennessee Part 2 - Nov. 22, 2002

Nov 27, 2022
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HK Edgerton, Covington, TN- November 11, 2022

As I stood at the podium of the Dunham Masonic Lodge in downtown Covington, Tennessee in preparation of delivering the Keynote Speech at the Veterans Day event, many thoughts would come into my head as I viewed all the babies who had come to hear me speak........

"My Babies, I know how you feel as you are beat down in the public school system for displaying your Southerness and Southern Pride ‘Turn that shirt inside out, or take it off because it bears the Southern Cross’.  ‘Don't use the word Confederacy!  Your ancestors were traitors.’

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