Agreed, but also add the one good thing that I credit Ted Turner for, the adaptation of "Killer Angels" into "Gettysburg." This July is the 150th Anniversary of this pivotal battle of the US Civil War.
Original name for Memorial Day is "Decoration Day" to decorate the graves of the Civil War fallen. It was one of the first spontaneous movements to be done in both the North and South after the war and in 1868 through the efforts of the Grand Army of the Republic, graves of both sides were decorated at Arlington!
A few years ago my wife and I visited Gettysburg. We rode our bikes around the Seminary Ridge area. It was early on a Sunady and no one was around. I sat looking down from the High Water Mark across the field of Pickett's Charge. I have never been so moved, sitting there in the still of an early morning, with mist lying low against the trees below the field, contemplating the kind of men that participated in that horrific battle.