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Like everyone wants to be like a Spartan warrior.

It ignores the fact that they lost. It ignores the fact that they came from a very militarized society. It paints over all these bad things and everyone just focuses on how these 300 decided to hold this one pass.

But it rarely did they get people when they get into it, note that they end up losing. It's almost it's pretty much all for not. One day all of the facts in about 30 years time will be published.

When genocide has been carried out in this country almost with community and when he's near completion

and has talked about intervention. You don't get freedom people.

Freedom is never safe-guarded people.

Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a people approach. Hello and I'm Jason Field.

State houses across the country.

Hello and welcome to Angry Planet.

I'm Matthew Galt.

And I'm Jason Field. Statehouses across the country are filled with monuments to

losers, traders, and terrorists. General Robert E. Lee and Benjamin Tillman are lauded alongside

figures like George Washington. The reasons why are

complicated but they're bound up in something called the myth of the lost cause

or the lost cause myth. If you've never heard of this or you don't understand why it's so critical to understanding American history,

honey you probably ain't from the South.

Here to help us understand what's going on is Dr. Robert Thompson.

Thompson is a historian working for Army University press and the author of the forthcoming book

Clear, Hold, and Destroy, which is about the American War in Vietnam. Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Well, pleasure to be here. Thanks for having us. Well, pleasure to be here.

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