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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      1. It can't be underlined enough how important the First World War is to France's national self-conception. Trump's failure to attend the memorial is a huge diplomatic insult.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      2. One thing that Americans need to ponder is that the first world war looms much larger in the national memories of the European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand than it does in the USA.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      3. For Europe & British commonwealth countries, WWI remains "the great war" -- the mountain under whose shadow we still live. Very different than USA, where "the big war" is the second world war.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      4. Partly its a matter of timing & of casualties. USA entered WWI very late (in 1917), missed the brutal years of trench warfare and ended up with 53,402 dead (as against 4 year of WWII with 291,557 dead.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      5. By contrast, for the European nations, military deaths (as agains civilian) were much larger in WWI. France lost 1,150,000 soldiers in WWI, 210,000 in WW2. England: 744,000 in WWI, 383,700 in WW2

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      6. But beyond the sheer numbers of dead, the war played a major role in shaping national mythologies. Verdun carries a resonance in France that it doesn't in the USA. Marne. Vimy Ridge, Gallipoli, the Somme. These are sacred names in other lands.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      7. (Sorry, in tweet #5 I should've said Britain rather than England).

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Nov 2018

      8. To underscore the argument: the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War is a really big deal in France, much of Europe, and the Commonwealth. Imagine a foreign leader shrugging off attending similar anniversary of, say, Gettysburg.

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        1. Joe Ro‏ @joero3 10 Nov 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Well Trump would probably go his Virginia golf course, play a round, and say he honored (sorry he would say "celebrated") Civil War dead.

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        2. brb‏ @funandnormal 10 Nov 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          not sure gettysburg has a comparable resonance in the US. maybe pearl harbor, d-day, or 9/11.

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        3. Lancelot Bennett‏ @Ruskin701 10 Nov 2018
          Replying to @funandnormal @HeerJeet

          Might. More US soldiers died in the civil war than in WW1, 2 and Korea combined.

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        1. M. Kei (he/him) WEAR A MASK‏ @kujakupoet 10 Nov 2018
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          I don't think most Americans would notice. We lack historacy, to coin a term comparable to to literacy and numeracy.

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        1. Andrew Burton‏ @burtonad 10 Nov 2018
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          Or 9/11.

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        1. Worst-case Ontario‏ @dangouge 10 Nov 2018
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          He's afraid that in the middle of the ceremony Merkel will shout, "NOW!" and whip out a Prussian helmet and a bayonet and come after him.

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        1. Eric Reese‏ @reeseer1 10 Nov 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Honestly, while it's not *as* big a deal in the US, it's still a big enough deal that no other President would consider doing what he did today and blowing off a major ceremony to stay home and tweet.

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        1. plancpills.org abortionfunds.org‏ @gdtrble 10 Nov 2018
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          Also, on the mental impact for those soldiers, it was the first extremely mechanized industrialized warfare with the deployment of chemical weapons in huge numbers and massive exploding arsernals. the ones that survived were often so traumatized they never recovered

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        2. Walt‏ @DubP23 11 Nov 2018
          Replying to @Consistentkirk @HeerJeet

          I think you are missing the point. His purpose was to attend this ceremony. Then he stiffed the host. He doesn't have to go, but once there keep your word. Part of being a man is knowing when .. at 70+ years he should have know .. As a military high school brat he should've known

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