lauranett lee? [applause] lauranett: thank you all so much for being here. thank you for your warm introduction. i certainly appreciate it. i am delighted to be able to share some of my thoughts about children, the children who went through war, not only in the civil war, but children who are now living in war all around the world. often times, when we think about history, we think about a specific amount of time. but i encourage you to look beyond civil war, to look at the experiences that children endure now, the plight that they are suffering all around the world, to think about how the civil war really gives us an opportunity to open our minds and consider what they are going through now. we have come over a wave, tears have been watered, not from the gloomy past, now, we stand at last, where our star is cast. those words were written by james weldon johnson in the early 20th century, and it was part of the national negro anthem, but they speak poignantly to what was going on in the civil war, after the civil war, to what is going on now. often times, wh

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