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Uh, didn’’t  you know? History is written by the winners………….

People exaggerate things?

I do not think history itself does, just the minds of men. I know the history kids are taught in school today is not always factually correct. 

History books sometimes bend the truth . and more importantly they leave OUT important parts of our history......such as how mean we were to the original   habitants of America  . And how brave the slaves were to escape all the way up north. ...Especially that one lady that made many trips back and forth leading many groups up on the "underground railroad "       No, it is not a real rail road.   And the hardships they put up with. History books are doing better with this now, but they never mentioned any of it when I was in  H.S.

There are facts that are larger than life, that even with thousands of witnesses, oppression, suppression of facts and torture….rips from the memory of man all reference to those events. The written history of events that can be read from a library book has been sanittized completely to provide no mystery, no confusion, no hint of crisis impending before the fact. That information requires digging in personal notebooks written in the day, recording the words of those who were there and gathering so many little facts to describe the tapestry of of such an event in time.

Histories are an effort to clearly state the facts of what took place. But what really happened was complex, involving many people, those glib notes; born, died. did something wonderful and is now a forgotten historic foot note.  

I was there when….the events happened…and the world could not know their loss if we had not lived to tell our story….and I alone survived. History….What actually happened…I was on the other side….

History is never so important when read from a book, living long can give you some lovely stories especially when you decide to...be there...to witness a historic event.     

most definitely have you read the Bible lately