View Single Post
Old 01-13-2013, 05:20 AM   #15
richlevy
King Of Wishful Thinking
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 6,669
Quote:
Originally Posted by IamSam View Post
There's been a bit of a problem with that "enduring" part. Enduring resentment is giving it a run for the money, though.
What I never understood is all of the Civil War reenactment in the South. Why keep faithfully reenacting a war that they lost? Isn't it a bit like inviting an old girlfriend over every year to replay the day she broke up with you?

Or is it the hope that if they keep doing it over and over again, there will be some moment of epiphany when they can watch it and say "So that's why we lost to those guys."
__________________
Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama
richlevy is offline   Reply With Quote