Teachers in a US military town are drawing straight lines from their classrooms to a war zone 4,500 miles away.
Teachers in a US military town are drawing straight lines from their classrooms to a war zone 4,500 miles awayBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNNWatertown, New York It was not quite 8 a.m. and Ambur Misercola's first-period history class was still shaking off slumber as she told them of a woman detained in Moscow's Pushkin Square -- not unlike the historic Public Square a short drive north that anchors this American military town.
Yulia Zhivtsova's crime, as it were, was taking two Harry Potter books to the square on the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- one from the Ravenclaw House edition and one from the Hufflepuff version. As most young people know, the color for Ravenclaw is blue and for Hufflepuff, yellow. The book covers correlate. Thus, as Zhivtsova sat beneath a lamppost reading, the green patina likeness of poet Alexander Pushkin watching over her, she appeared to hold a Ukrainian flag.
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