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...memorial's purposes is "to teach us to be the antithesis of what is portrayed." Similarly, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (on which Oklahoma City is modeled), the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island, the battlefield sites of Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Little Big Horn and others are teaching institutions, telling the story of the event by means of videos, texts and artifacts. The World War II memorial in Washington, in the planning stages, will include a teaching museum...
...closure of Boston's port, was certainly not a pleasant experience. When the Tories left the city in 1776, it was a significant victory for the Continental forces. On the other hand, it doesn't have quite the emotional impact or historical significance of, say, the Battle of Gettysburg...
...Gettysburg, as everyone knows, is in Pennsylvania, but George W. Bush can't wait that long. And so he's going to make his stand here, turning South Carolina into his battleground to once and for all dispel the notion that Republicans should consider voting for John McCain. Bush says he can certainly see why Democrats would; on Sunday he told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that those sly Dems were planning on pulling the McCain lever just so they could stack the deck in favor of their candidate in the general election. Although this seems to veer dangerously...
...neck over the past week. And if W.'s ads and newfound aggressiveness change some Republican hearts and minds while keeping Democrat and independent turnout low, South Carolina - and the GOP nomination - is his. The risk, of course, in staking everything is that while South Carolina could be his Gettysburg, it could also be his Waterloo...
...Like the Confederates at Gettysburg, however, the exile activists may have chosen to fight on terrain more favorable to their enemies. Fidel Castro has used Cuban anger at Elian's plight to shore up his own regime, and gains whether Elian returns home or stays in Miami. The prospects may be reversed for the Miami leadership: Losing the Elian case after a fierce fight will accelerate the decline in their political fortunes that has been evident since the pope's visit to Cuba two years ago. "Many people believe that this fear of losing their influence in the U.S. helped...