1. Lee surrendered to Grant 152 years ago. As @brianbeutler notes, Confederacy Defeat Day should be a holiday: https://newrepublic.com/article/121406/civil-war-150th-anniversary-confederacy-defeat-should-be-holiday …
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In New Zealand and Australia, too.
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Australia does that as well (although with Gallipolli in place of Vimy)
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How does it compare to Aus/NZ and Gallipoli (where it's essentially the only bit of WW1 taught in schools and referred to in media)?
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See this celebration in Okotoks http://www.okotoks.ca/discover-okotoks/things-do/community-events-calendar/birth-nation-day …
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you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori
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Australia too
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in Australia, partly thanks to the founder of the satanic Murdoch dynasty, WW1 is seen by many as the birth of the nation
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I think it's kind of unseemly to morn exclusively the allied dead for a war with zero moral justification like WWI.
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visited Britain in 2014, it was weird
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see: Rilla of Ingleside, the Anne of Green Gables book about Canada in WWI.
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