‘Mormon Land’: An Independence Day special on how persecuted faiths helped shape ‘America’s greatest export’ — religious freedom

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U.S. flags sway in the breeze outside Sandy City Hall in Sandy, Utah, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) U.S. flags sway in the breeze outside Sandy City Hall in Sandy, Utah, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

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