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BIERCE'S QUOTE ON HISTORY IS APT.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the editor)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20060605
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Byline: David Dill Baraboo

Dear Editor: Your apologia for military sentimentalism (in the form of a Walt Whitman poem in the Memorial Day editorial) reminded me of another and (to me) better sentiment by Ambrose Bierce:

"History, n. An account, mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools."

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