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From the Abbeville Institute:
In 1934, FDR was the first President to visit Roanoke County, Virginia, since George Washington had 200 years before as a young surveyor and soldier. FDR was to race through Salem (our home town) on his way to honor the new World War I veterans’ hospital nearby. The locals crowded about a right turn where his car had to slow down.
Grandmother was lucky–she was a friend of the elderly, opinionated owner of the drugstore on that corner, and was invited to the owner’s yard behind the store, a site 4 feet above the street, so our view was not barred.
He had invited two Confederate vets who…