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William McKinley Coffee Break Monument

Wilmington, DE

A monument in Brandywine Park remembers teenage William McKinley serving coffee to Union soldiers under fire during the Battle of Antietam. It is an unusually specific presidential memorial — less about office and more about a battlefield coffee run.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: af.mil/About-Us/Empowered-Airmen/dvpTag/USCT/

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