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memory and war  

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  • Wars, to paraphrase the scholar Samuel Hynes, are often not only extraordinary military and political events in the history of a society, but also extraordinary imaginative events. They can change, among other things, how people see themselves, their society, their nation, the world, and their country's place in the world. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Memory and War]

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