No, the mourners do write "epic tales" they rent their rainments, put on sackcloth and ashes, gnash their teeth and succumb to Dhimmitude. The dead do not write constitutions nor do their mourners. Our framers were victors not losers. Those who wrote the Declaration of Independence knew the forfeit for losing and that is why they said they were pledging their "lives" as well as their fortunes and sacred honor.
My ancestors fought bravely for their conception of liberty and lost at Appomattox. I will grant you their epic tales of heroism and the unspeakable sacrifice of Jackson's foot cavalry, I have seen their epitaphs on the tombstones of Gettysburg but they wrote no Constitution, they descended into generations of poverty.
However, they did not descend into guerrilla warfare, or terrorism, rather they waged honorable war but lost so they paid a century long price.
