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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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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I've seen it and yet I can't place the faces, I assume Jackson, Lee, Davis
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Trying to normalize racism will be your greatest legacy Crank.
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