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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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| + | MK, I agree with it for sure. I own a few Civil War movies, and have seen them all more than a few times (although APPARENTLY, not enough for Glory...) and can recite a few scenes by heart. Jeff Shaara's Civil War books are phenomenal reads, and I'll confess to spending a day on and around the Antietam battlefield just for the hell of it. Even us...would we be in this class if we weren't at least a little interested in the subject matter? --Cash | ||
"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. | "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. | ||
