Some reflections from a day in the city of Ghent ... a city that needlessly ceased to have much meaning to Americans after the Treaty of Ghent (in which the US promised to halt hostilities against the Native Americans ... a false renewal the Thanksgiving spirit) which ended the War of 1812 with the British (a failed war which the US started ostensibly to challenge a blockade, but covertly to conquer Canada) yet was merely a prelude to the unnecessary death and suffering in Louisianna (the infamous Battle of New Orleans which occurred two weeks after the treaty had been signed). Perhaps history does repeat itself in more subtle ways ...
Otherwise it's just another a large town with losts of canals and churches with art that you're not supposed to take pictures of ...
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