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Casselli later recalled, "ithin three days of my arrival, I was knee-deep in war. I had to be a Marine first just to survive." Despite the hardship of war, Casselli was able to depict soldiers and scenes of war in pencil sketches and paintings during his combat tour, artwork that is now
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African Americans in New Orleans. His work soon began to draw national attention, and in
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