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electric_blue68

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5. Just tuned in. I will have to you tube that hymn, but right now their singing Battle Hymn for The Repiblic, when...

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 04:43 PM

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Sen Robert Kennedy’s funeral train passed by Philadelphia a whole group of African-Americans stood by the tracks and sang "The Battle Hymn".

Sort of an echo to your memory.

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