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Do we see similar issues regarding the Fredericksburg City Cemetery arising shortly after the war? Was the expansion of the cemetery to include Confederate dead also an effort to "guarantee that their version of the story would outlast them and even their own families"? DRadtke | Do we see similar issues regarding the Fredericksburg City Cemetery arising shortly after the war? Was the expansion of the cemetery to include Confederate dead also an effort to "guarantee that their version of the story would outlast them and even their own families"? DRadtke | ||
| − | No war the U.S. has taken part in since the Civil War has been as highly romanticized, or possibly even remotely romanticized, because of changing perspectives. Do you think it is because of these Memorial Day celebrations, especially the speeches that reach out to the people left behind while others went off to "win glory", had a large part in this? Or was it simply a change that occurred over time throughout the U.S. | + | No war the U.S. has taken part in since the Civil War has been as highly romanticized, or possibly even remotely romanticized, because of changing perspectives. Do you think it is because of these Memorial Day celebrations, especially the speeches that reach out to the people left behind while others went off to "win glory", had a large part in this? Or was it simply a change that occurred over time throughout the U.S.? - AJ L. |
