As I've noted before, narratives based on these timelines have to consider things like the natural cycle of war remembrance, reflected on the Union side. A pretty clear contrast in these two charts - the war monuments fit the natural pattern. Not so, the naming of schools. https://twitter.com/PhilWMagness/status/1155679833772515329 …
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If you think the 50th anniversary of a war is a strange time to build war memorials, you probably didn't live through the 90s wave of WWII nostalgia - Saving Private Ryan, "The Greatest Generation," the 1993-95 commissioning of the national WWII Memorial.
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What's the world's most prominent memorial or monument to a lost war? I'd nominate the ironically-named Arc de Triomphe, which was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 after Austerlitz, but only completed in 1836, long after the French had lost the Napoleonic Wars.
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It takes a truly French commitment to chutzpah to name your monument the Arch of Triumph after the war ended in a colossal failure.
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Why not do both?
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please note the VASTLY different scales on the two y axis.
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True, but the pattern is still distinctive.
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