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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Replying to @HeerJeet @brianbeutler
2. If Southerners wanted to celebrate their heritage, this and not the confederate flag should be flown.pic.twitter.com/uqILNiHA7R
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3. Today is also the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge, a famous battle Canadian soldiers participated in.
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3. Unlike the Civil War, World War I had no moral justification. Alas, rightful mourning over sacrifice of soldiers leads to myth making.
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4. In Canada, in particular, there's an unwholesome tendency to mythologize WWI & Vimy as national coming of age stories.
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Why? Because I don't think sacrifices of soldiers should be exploited by nationalist mythmaking?
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No because they died for the reasons you said. They should be honored for the sacrifice they shouldn't have been asked to make
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It's proper to honor them for sacrifices but in fact their deaths are too often exploited in a nationalist myth. That's my objection
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