Originally Posted by perchjerker
I only know that most of Americas hero's end up belittled.

Columbus was not American and his hero status as I stated in my first post was basically created out of thin air by a horrendously flawed book written by Washington Irvin in 1828. So there was never any greatness to tear down. Not to single him out however. We teach a lot of bull $%*t in history classrooms.


The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
- Abigail van Buren