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A Huffington Post Travel Guide To Family Vacations In Pennsylvania

The Huffington Post | Jane Ellis | Posted 12.20.2011

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Family vacations in Pennsylvania can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters -- it all depends on pretrip homework. To make planning easier, we...

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Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Have a Lot of Work to Do

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bob Cesca

If Newt, Sarah and Glenn were truly so driven to maintain the sacred purity of American "hallowed ground," they can start by campaigning for the removal of the General Robert E. Lee statue of Gettysburg.

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A "No Fault" Divorce from the Costs of Our Wars

William Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Astore

Whether past, present, or future, war should never be or become an exercise in consumption or entertainment. But we've allowed war -- so personal and visceral and murderous -- to become action-at-a-distance.

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The Importance of Place in the American Story

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kate Kelly

Being on the Gettysburg Battlefield, I understood service and sacrifice to one's country in a way that I have never understood it before.

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