WE SHOULD KNOW OUR HISTORY Who’d have thought a day would come in America when George Washington would be nothing more than a caricature in a television commercial. And that Abraham Lincoln would be his foil. We used to honor these great men. Now we mock them. And worse, we ignore them. Our understanding of American history has become so weak and distorted that we fail to comprehend and appreciate our heritage. Names and events sacred to us mean nothing. And instead of grateful we are indifferent. It’s hard to see this development as an accident. Instead, it is the...