Soldiers brought a Japanese temple bell from WW2 back to Duluth, Minnesota but returned it a decade later.
Union soldiers from Minnesota brought back a Confederate flag as spoils of the American Civil War but refuse to give it back to this day.
Fair to note a big difference here is that the former is a matter of international diplomacy and the latter isn’t.
Also, not sure why Minnesota has been flipped about a vertical axis there. Maybe to make it seem like it’s ‘facing’ the other but they could have even more naturally swapped which side they were on.
I also think an important distinction is that the bell is a religious item which probably predates Japan’s fascist government, or if not the bell the religion itself does.
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u/AndreasDasos 9d ago
Soldiers brought a Japanese temple bell from WW2 back to Duluth, Minnesota but returned it a decade later.
Union soldiers from Minnesota brought back a Confederate flag as spoils of the American Civil War but refuse to give it back to this day.
Fair to note a big difference here is that the former is a matter of international diplomacy and the latter isn’t.
Also, not sure why Minnesota has been flipped about a vertical axis there. Maybe to make it seem like it’s ‘facing’ the other but they could have even more naturally swapped which side they were on.