{"id":10214,"date":"2017-07-04T21:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T01:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=10214"},"modified":"2017-07-04T21:37:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T01:37:19","slug":"a-salute-to-gettysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2017\/07\/a-salute-to-gettysburg.html","title":{"rendered":"A salute to Gettysburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The film that is:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nAn annual viewing tradition around July 4th. \u00a0From a time before the dark days of\u00a0Multiculturalism taught us to ignore the myriad sins of the world\u00a0while refusing to forgive the sins of the West.<\/p>\nAdapted from\u00a0Michael Shaara\u2019s The Killer Angels<\/em>, it marked that last point where the Civil War was popularly understood as driven by the issue of slavery, but also about many complex issues, as history always is.<\/p>\nBut that was then. \u00a0Today history, \u00a0like so many things, has been whittled down to a soundbite. \u00a0Hence the end of the Confederate memorials; hence raising new bigotries and racisms to replace the old. \u00a0Those hellbent on ignoring the past\u00a0are, after all, doomed to repeat it. \u00a0Or \u2013 good news for the post-war generations \u2013 our posterity will be doomed to repeat it.<\/p>\nSometimes I think the reason we spend so much time focused on the sins of the past is because, deep down, we can\u2019t help but think\u00a0they were better than we are (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y_t5x4BYit8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">exceptions noted<\/a>). \u00a0As a generation, our greatest accomplishment is watching the civilization we inherited crumble under our feet. \u00a0And in the end, that\u2019s not much to endear us to future memory. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/dissenting-from-the-annual-15-minute-hate-against-columbus.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0A generation\u00a0that has concluded \u201cwe can climb higher by kicking down the ladder by which we have come thus far\u201d has shown why the\u201dprogressive habit of thinking we can make the world better for our children by murdering the memory of our grandparents is folly.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nThe proof, as they say, <a href=\"https:\/\/relevantmagazine.com\/slice\/study-more-americans-than-ever-before-are-suffering-from-depression-stress-and-anxiety\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">is in the pudding<\/a>. \u00a0Just some whimsy on this Independence Day celebration. \u00a0Now off to the fireworks!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film that is: An annual viewing tradition around July 4th. \u00a0From a time before the dark days of\u00a0Multiculturalism taught us to ignore the myriad sins of the world\u00a0while refusing to forgive the sins of the West. 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