Letter to the Editor: When will Congress and our local representatives get to work?
Louis Cooper holds sign walking with (left to right,) Anissa Revels and Tracy Jones during Unity Walk against Violence at Hilcrest High School in Whitehaven on February 27, 2021.(Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
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“What irony there is in honoring our dead from wars while disregarding our dead children of today.”
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