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Film director, war reenactors discuss Confederate flag issue at Iowa State U.
News Wire article from: University Wire ...2001 (Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- The Civil War came to an...voices and flags on the streets...Krausse, a Confederate Civil War...Civil War ...

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