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I’ve been walking across this great nation for months now. There is something beautiful about walking — you notice details along the road, you have conversations with strangers, and sometimes it’s just breathing the air that makes each place come alive. As I headed into Fredericksburg, Virginia, I was eager to walk across some of America’s most historic battlefields — until the road got a whole lot harder. A doctor diagnosed a pyogenic granuloma — a medical term for a growth — on my heel after days of endless walking.It’s bleeding, it’s throbbing, but I know the temporary pain I feel is nothing compared to the suffering of the past that has taken place on these battlefields.

Fredericksburg was a slaughter pen during the Civil

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