Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
I suppose "everyone" includes British posters?
This is a wonderful post, my friend! Great job.
It's amazing how the same points of history, looked upon from two different points of view, can appear so radically different. I seriously doubt that anything you've said can be considered false. It's only in the interpretation of events and personalities that any arguments might ensue.

OK this is an intentional demolition job: I've avoided the good things I've seen, because I enjoy being provocative,
Not you, surely!

and because I do believe that none of the Founding Fathers is really the hero he has been made out to be.
I have to agree. One thing that history shows us beyond any doubt is that heroes are not always on the right side, and that much of the time any righteousness they have is self-righteousness. Then too, villains are seldom as bad as they are portrayed. In fact, it can be very difficult to tell which is which, depending upon which side you are viewing them.

Maybe the truth is not to be found in school text books (either American or British).
A truth all of us would be well advised to understand, and remember.

Thanks again for a great post.