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Subject:	+sacred soil
From:	Donna Lucey / Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:50:12 -0500
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There's sacred soil up North too.

The obelisk at Lexington Green, the nation's first Revolutionary War
monument (put up 1799) has an inscription which begins:

Sacred to Liberty & the Rights of Mankind!!!
The Freedom & Independence of America!!!
Sealed and defended with the blood of her sons.

The inscription names the men killed on the Green and refers to "The
Blood of these Martyrs."

Henry Wiencek
Charlottesville

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