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				 Good day to be alive 
 
			
			Nearly 60* today in upstate NY, got to go golfing with my dad for the first time this year.  Its days like this when you appreciate how good life can be.
		 
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				Author of  eath, Disease, and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865.
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