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."
> ----------
> 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