(A) they lived in Texas or (B) Texas's textbook buying clout influenced their standardized history textbooks.
Stupid doesn't just happen. Stupid at this level is a strategy. Oh, congrats to the ideological victors! Hey, you won for now! Cheers: throwbacks!!! Turned an ever-smaller % of yet another generation from the light toward dead-ender-ism; victimized,
I was the echo trumpet. Hating, if that was your way.
Hey, victims: you BELIEVE it's your destiny. I think it's your EZ choice. Been there. Escaped that. [fingers crossed]
I grew up in a Massachusetts town with no awe-overboard Civil War statues. We saluted the dead on Memorial Day annually. It wasn't patriotism. It easily might have looked like that: uniforms, drills, speeches, marching.
It was for this obscure town remembrance. People came before. They always had their personal reasons for caring. They died for these reasons, some as fragile as a dawn spider's line.
I met many people in Holbrook, MA. My mother took the bus nights into Boston to earn her degree. My grandmother and moral compass lived next door. My lucky girlfriend was sadder than I was and far more hopeful. It saved her. She married the best man in a generation.