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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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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not sure gettysburg has a comparable resonance in the US. maybe pearl harbor, d-day, or 9/11.
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Might. More US soldiers died in the civil war than in WW1, 2 and Korea combined.
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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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Or 9/11.
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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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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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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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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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