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I think you have made a really essential point, Henry, and I thank
you for that.
-- Stephan
On 12 May 2007, at 16:25, Paul Heinegg wrote:
> Henry wrote:
> "The issues with the Jamestown commemoration arise because we have
> lived so
> long in a cocoon of myth. The bedrock of our national myth has
> been that we
> were born in a state of innocence. It's the foundation of our
> notion that
> we are a good people, uniquely virtuous and blessed."
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> I remember having a discussion with my classmates in my last year
> in college when the Vietnam War was just starting. I repeated what
> LBJ had said as a Congressman: that we should not get mired in a
> war in the jungles of Asia. My entire class was furious with me,
> insisting that America had never been part of an unjust war and had
> done nothing immoral in its entire history.
>
> So much for learning from your mistakes or studying history to
> avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. I guess that refers only
> to World History where you study the mistakes of other nations.
> Paul
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