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Could it be that you regard anyone who does not agree with your view of history to be a lost causer?...... IMHO you are pretty intorerant of this...
Yes and no, Ed. I'm growing more and more crotchety every day, but I do tolerate very well (well, maybe not so well, nobody likes to admit where he's wrong) anyone who can make a case and show me some proof.
The old "he said this -- no he didn't" is easy enough to fix. "There was 30 years of..... -- no there wasn't" becomes exponentially more difficult.
A lot of the difference is in the family stories. Mine had none. Does that put me ahead? You've been around a while. Do you recall anyone admitting that the history classes imposed on him or her had more than a chapter on the USCW? Mostly, we're whacked with those, like myself, who became fascinated with the subject later in life. (My own began about 40 years ago with some off-and-on offerings of BOMC. But it has lately become quite intense, and I find myself reading books that years ago I would have used as doorstops.
If we are not, in fact, looking for real history, what are we doing? Jawing and having a good time. Either works, but I am always compelled to question. When I stop doing that, donations will be accepted at.......
ole