They tell the story of the conflict between the Empire and the Republic and the corruption and desertion to the dark side of Anakin Skywalker, an idealistic freedom fighter who becomes Darth Vader, a father doomed to fight against his son, Luke Skywalker, inheritor of his original idealism.

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An American private laid another wreath in the cold dark cells where some Pilgrims were confined in 1607 while trying to escape to religious freedom in Holland.

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