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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The Germans built a huge monument to Tannenberg, their greatest victory of WWI, in 1924, six years after they lost the war. It was dedicated by Hindenburg, who was buried there, but was destroyed in stages by Germans, Russians & Poles during & after the next war.
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The most distinctive of the Confederate memorials.https://twitter.com/Blooshier/status/1155689326300291072 …
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Another reader nominates the Crazy Horse Monument as a domestic example of a monument to a lost warhttps://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/167988928/the-slow-carving-of-the-crazy-horse-monument …
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The Irish, the Scots & some of the Balkan states have a rich literature of lost wars, but I confess I'm less familiar with their statuary.
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Oh yes. Very good. Although it is more of a site preservation. (The Alamo, by contrast, was a lost battle in a won war.)https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1155691469157670913 …
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