Washington DC is no exception, although being a modern capital, its foundingmyth is somewhat more modest and believable.
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As a foundingmyth.
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He'd not seen the battle himself, of course; he was too young, but the tale of Omar's eye had the power of a foundingmyth.
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The walls were decorated with old paintings-cowboysand Indians and landscapes of a frontier nation; Washington crossing the Delaware, that foundingmyth of American determination.
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All states have their foundingmyths, and unionists frequently indulge in many myths of their own.
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Yet without such foundingmyths, it might have been less easy to integrate the new movement into the Church.