Historical Perspective

An anecdote in Reader's Digest tells of an American couple who are visiting Remagen, Germany. They ask a local if the bridge they were on was the one crossed by Patton. The local replied, "I learned a different history."

When I served in Korea I'd heard that North Korean school children were taught that the Korean Conflict began when the South's Army invaded the North.

And the U.S. has NEVER lost a war.


I've heard this from many Amercians. When I remind of them of 1812, they don't know what I am talking about. Must not have made the history books in the U.S.

we didn't exactly triumph in Vietnam either.

Did we lose the war of 1812? I thought the British were trying to make us a colony again, and that doesn't seem to have happened. Or were they just interested in beating us up for a while, signing a peace treaty and then getting stomped around by Jackson? We may not have won the ar, but we didn't really lose it. Vietnam we did lose.