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BumRushDaShow

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8. In school

Reply to Codeine (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 24, 2018, 01:37 PM

Nov 2018

I heard more about the European atrocities in Europe than the American atrocities right here in the U.S. There was far too much of the myths of "Johnny Appleseed" and "Davy Crockett" and "Daniel Boone" and little about the realities of that era.

Fortunately my parents had bookcases full of my own history just as I have my own bookcases full of the same today.

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R.I.P. dear brave lady BumRushDaShow Nov 2018 #5

I was lucky enough to learn about this in school. Codeine Nov 2018 #7

In school BumRushDaShow Nov 2018 #8