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St. Patrick's Day, 2015

A little ahead of myself, yep. Irish? Nope. Next year, rather than green beer and drunken fifteen year olds, how about a connection to the Irish Americans from NYC who fought in the bloody American Civil War? Immigrants, for the most part, fighting to right the horrendous wrong of slavery in their new home. Greenwood Cemetery holds the graves of a multitude of Civil War vets. Many of them are Irish. Make St. Patrick's Day a little more relevant. A little more part of the real Irish in NYC

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