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Battlefields around the world are finding new purpose as parks and refuges

  • Written by Todd Lookingbill, Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment, University of Richmond
Antietam National Battlefield, Pennsylvania, site of a savage Civil War battle on Sept. 17, 1862.NPS

The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges.

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