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I found Blight's description of Civil War memory as a national pastime very interesting. What were other people's reaction to this statement? -MK | I found Blight's description of Civil War memory as a national pastime very interesting. What were other people's reaction to this statement? -MK | ||
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| + | "The former soldiers were the living reminders that the current society, however drab and materialistic, had evolved out of a more heroic time." This quote says very clearly something that we have discussed a great deal, and it also gives us an idea of how quickly the times changed from the heroic romanticized era to a more common time. How often did these events involving the civil war veterans occur? AJ L. | ||
