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DON’T RE-DO HISTORY, PLEASE

The British Won

Recent efforts to restore/rebuild the Bluenose sailing sloop ($15.5m???) got me thinking about another attempt to re-do the past…

It has come to my attention that the National Battlefields Commission has decided to re-enact the Battle of the Plains of Abraham on, well, the Plains of Abraham, in Quebec City.

(I had a Jewish classmate at Crestwood Elementary in Edmonton who told me the Plains of Abraham was also another name for the Israeli Air Force).

I don’t know who the National Battlefields Commission is, but I think this is a bad idea. 

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