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Why this military historian finds a congregation's 80th birthday so moving

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Eighty years ago today, a new Lutheran church was organized in what was then still called Rose Township, Minnesota. That farmland north of St. Paul was starting to attract suburban homeowners like the founders of what became Roseville Lutheran Church, who broke ground on their own building the following year.

As it happens, my wife and I moved into that …

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