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In article <2434mscvaq8qpvfadgq3aku373src175pu@4ax.com>, Phil Sunde 
<psunde@netway.com> wrote:

>Happy Fourth!
>
>Ann Landers column in today's Globe reprints an article about the
>signers of the Declaration of Independence and (supposedly) what
>happened to them.  
>
>A more factual accounting can be found at 
>http://www.snopes.com/spoons/glurge/declare.htm 
>at Barbara and David P. Mikkelson's website.
>
>Their first paragraph follows:
>
>"A better opening question for this piece might be: "Have you ever
>wondered why people feel the need to turn history into glurge?"
>Whoever creates these kinds of essays apparently feels we can't
>comprehend or appreciate that human beings are complex creatures, and
>therefore we must be presented with history rewritten in black and
>white; history in which all characters are unambiguously heroes or
>villains, their motives provably pure or base, their actions
>unarguably right or wrong."
>
>Fit's in well with the Globes front page article by David Shribman,
>"Facing Truths, We Remake History."

Interesting stuff!

-- 
Howard S Shubs, the Denim Adept