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February 28, 2017

What Israeli and Canadian War Songs Have in Common

Is there a universal connection between war and flowers?

Israeli war songs, and even army slang, tend to be filled with horticultural imagery. Noting something similar in the way Canadians have memorialized World War I, Matti Friedman finds something universal:

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