“True Blue and Grit to the Backbone”

By MI Digital June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

By Phil Spaugy The story is well known. How John Lawrence Burns of Gettysburg, a man born during the presidency of George Washington, a soldier of 1812, a former town constable and resident cur

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