The Sand Creek Massacre, Part 1: Lies and Betrayal

Every culture has its black moments. America is no exception. Sadly, many use these to attack the culture, as an excuse to "fundamentally transform" us. But, let's put things into perspective. America is not the sum of its history. It is people fleeing their history and rising above it. Well, at least it once was. The vast majority of Americans came from somewhere else or were born here of people who came from somewhere else. Hell, even the American Indians are not indigenous if you look back far enough into their history. Try as we might to escape out history, we brought a lot of it with us or inherited it from our forebearers. Slavery. Denial of rights to women. None of these things were invented here, but they were practiced here until We the People chose not to. Fortunately, those who crafted our Constitution did not codify these things. Indeed, it may be argued that they gave us the freedom to change all that we discovered to be reprehensible. Hopefully we will continue that practice. However, we can't if we surrender our freedoms. If we surrender freedom of speech to political correctness. If we surrender our rights to petition our government for redress of our grievances. If we surrender our right to defend ourselves from tyranny.

SGT (Join to see) I remember reading the Book, Michener goes into extensive detail of History. Mother sent it to me while I was stationed at CINCPACFLT Pearl Harbor, HI. Needless to say I read his Book Hawaii Next.

Sad piece of history but it shows that even Americans weren't exempt from atrocities given the right set of circumstances.