[Ancesthntr]

“I have always felt that the bad things we do (both personally and nationally) are just as important to who we are as the good things we do. It makes us who we are. It is part of lessons learned. I am appalled to see this intentional eradication of these things....”

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That is essentially what I tell my kids, That you can learn something from everyone you meet. Sometimes you learn what to do and sometimes you learn what not to do. But you always learn something.

If the eradication of History continues, I can easily foresee the time when some ignorant youth will honestly challenge the very idea that there was ever slavery or Civil War. There will simply be no evidence of it left. Search is what airbrushing history does.

[rlmorel]

Agreed 100%.

Which is one of the reasons I am concerned that Google has grown to what it is.

The FACT that they shape searches at all is deeply troubling.

There is an entire generation now to whom the concept of researching something is limited to Google searches.

Heck, I rarely do much different myself when online.