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Growing up in the same neighborhood as Vel Phillips, Carla Brockman never expected to one day be part of a re-enactment group for Wisconsin’s only colored troops in the Civil War.
But working with wounded soldiers at the VA has given her a unique perspective for the timeless effect of war.