[redgolum]

The older I get, the more I am thankful for the education I got at that high school in the middle of a corn field. In general, the teachers pulled no punches. History was taught pretty objectively, and this was just one instance.

Today most of the teachers from when I was there have retired. I am afraid the students at my old high school now do not receive the type of education I did. While we did look at some of the bad things the US did (Sheridan wiping out the Indians, Japanese internment camps in WWII), he always went out of his way to show that those policies were viewed as necessary at the time.

[Little Ray]

Don't beat yourself up too badly. Think about the folks the Indians exterminated before their turn came.
And about the internment camps: Have you ever thought what would have happened to those Japanese Americans when we found out about things like the Bataan Death March? In many ways, the internment camps were protective custody...