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Georgia

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,952 posts) Tue Apr 13, 2021, 02:16 PM Apr 2021

On this day, April 13, 1945, this was the scene in Atlanta, Georgia:

I can't make the image at the AJ-C site show up on DU. 17qq has the locomotive numbers.

Presidential funeral train: Recalling FDR’s last journey from Georgia’s Warm Springs

Another image of that:

At Warm Springs:

As the train passes:

Source: https://line.17qq.com/articles/bfpeegebz.html

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On this day, April 13, 1945, this was the scene in Atlanta, Georgia: (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2021 OP

Just trying to imagine the FDR impact along that route brings tears to my eyes. empedocles Apr 2021 #1

My mother was 7 when he was first elected yellowdogintexas Apr 2021 #2

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

1. Just trying to imagine the FDR impact along that route brings tears to my eyes.

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Tue Apr 13, 2021, 02:32 PM

Apr 2021

yellowdogintexas

(22,722 posts)

2. My mother was 7 when he was first elected

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Tue Apr 13, 2021, 04:50 PM

Apr 2021

and 19 when he died. She told me that it was devastating; everyone her age and younger had no knowledge of any other president. Of course we were still at war as well.

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