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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

United

Thursday, May 18, 2017

The country is named the UNITED States of America. The Civil War ended in May 1865, and with the end of that war we had created a nation of independent states strongly united in a common purpose. That unity would be tested many times against many enemies, and the UNITED States would survive and be strengthened.

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