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Originally Posted by IamSam

There's been a bit of a problem with that "enduring" part. Enduring resentment is giving it a run for the money, though.

Uhh, invasion of Iraq was Operation Enduring Freedom. Was attempt at humour.

Originally Posted by richlevy

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."

It is a bit odd.
Australia's day of military rememberance is ANZAC day, April 25, the anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli, Turkey, in WWI.

It was a bloody disaster. Not a bad idea, but hopelessly badly planned, organised and led, and bogged down into the worst stalemate of trench warfare with added logistical challenges of a toehold on a beach head under mountain ridges. After eight months, they managed an evacuation. It produced our most famous war hero ever, Private Simpson Kirkpatrick, a stretcher-bearer who (technically) went AWOL, stole a donkey from somewhere, and used it to evacuate somewhere between 70 and 300 wounded men down sniper alley before being killed.

We don't re-enact the landings or such, but we take a pride in the stubborn guts with which our troops fought.

I wonder if the Southerners are doing something similar - taking pride in damn near winning against a foe with a clear industrial advantage.