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Or from violence. and so abolitionists and freed men and women and radical republicans kept con joeling and rebel rousing, and within a few years of the war's end, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing vote rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law and still it wasn't enough. for another century we saw segregation and jim crow make a mockery of these amendments. and we saw justice turn a blind eye to mobs with nooses slung over trees. we saw bullets and bombs terrorize generations. and yet through all this the call to freedom survived.

Air, that the jet stream would pick them up and carry them all the way across the pacific ocean to north america. and depending on where the winds carried them these balloon bombs would come down all up and down the west coast of north america. this is newsreel footage from just after the war. watch. >> hundreds of the balloons came down in canada and the united states. incendiaries and high-explosive bombs caused some damage but demolition squads were on constant alert. most landed without exploding. the threat however, persisted until the war's end. and only today, we learn a secret long-shr...

>> is it possible to dip your toe into iraq and not be pulled into deeper into the conflict? >> to understand what is happening in iraq today, it's worth looking back to december 18th 2011 when quts the norkz times ran this headline, last convey leaves iraq ending a war's end. a war's end. it didn't run that headline on a one or two or three. it ran on a six and it included this amazing detail. as an indication of the country the u.s. is leaving behind, for security reasons the last soldiers may no time for good-byes for iraqis who they became acquainted. the photo is beautiful and feels final...

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