I’m flying my Columbus flag today! It’s always good for a conversation starter with the neighbors.
My father’s out in Berzerkley, CA visiting with family, he said the grandkids are off from school there, but they don’t call it “Columbus Day” but “Indignant People’s Day” or some such phrase.
Columbus is a human hero.
He saw the unknown and tackled it with little more than 3 boats barely the size of pleasure craft, and no way of knowing if he would live to finish.
While on the other side of the pond the Aztecs and Inca were engaging in human sacrifice, and avoiding usage of the wheel.
I celebrated it with my students today. I also brought up the topic of the dangers of “revised history.”
No debate around here.
Was it a good or bad thing?!? They didn’t even have the wheel figured out as a means of transportation. Bringing civilization to a savage land is always a good thing.
Good grief ... if not Columbus, someone would have eventually settled on this side of the pond. Many tried before him and others came after him. Can’t blame him for western civilization coming this way.
Beware the E-V-I-L white man. The devil himself has more virtues and positive traits...
Taken from a chapter in the book How to Raise an American were celebrating our monthly Patriots Birthday Party today with our 9-year old son, honoring today, Columbus
Each month we have a Patriot’s Birthday Party held for a famous American, or in this case someone who open the new world to further exploration and settlements, and bringing the modern world to indigenous peoples who were still living in the stone age. That’s right, 5000 years after the wheel was first used in the old world the people of the new world had not even discovered the wheel yet.
We will not only discuss what the person did to make them special, but what America was like at the time, what they wore, and what they ate. Often he will get a small gift related to the person or event, like today he got a real compass, and a lesson in basic map navigation like Columbus would have needed to know how to do. We also plan our meal around it, tonight having Italian. When possible we will also watch a movie or documentary together about the person, or get a book from the library.
It’s great fun and educational, and he can’t wait to see who I pick next month.
Others were:
Ben Franklin - always Philly Cheese Steak night, Boston Baked beans; and French Fries in honor of him being the first ambassador to France. Then maybe watch the movie 1776
John Glenn –makes a great TV Dinner night, and the astronaut movie choices are endless.
Get the Idea?
The possibilities are as much planning for as doing it. Reagan, Washington, Harry Truman, Sally Ride, Helen Keller, Lou Gehrig, Henry Ford, Jesse Owen, Walt Disney, Jackie Robinson, Abe Lincoln, Father Flanagan, and on and on.
Funny how that 'debate' coincides with ever expanding multiculturalism which just happen to become the national mantra after 1965. Of course the unchecked invasion into our country might have something to do with it too.
Is everyone aware that Columbus named the first island he came to San Salvador? Holy Savior?
Masons tried to change it at one time, but it still retains the Catholic name.
How many cities, states, etc. in the United States have Catholic or Christian names? A lot — Especially along El Camino Rael in California. All saints names — ssssh — don’t tell the people in California that San Francisco was really named San Francisco de Assisi.