"DiStasio correctly points out that the VA Center in Hot Springs was originally constructed to house veterans of the Civil War. These were not just Union veterans, but veterans from the Confederate states as well. Both sides fought under their own flags for a cause they believed was right and just. Above all, men and women from both sides who fought in this terrible and bloody war were all Americans."

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