Seeing the level of narrative building in the media. Does anyone else now question...

All I can vouch for was I saw a dramatic change in reporting during the 70’s. What was presented during the 30 minute evening news was in dramatic contrast to what I witnessed each day. I think the only thing that has changed is the ability of people to communicate and record (film) in real time. Ferguson and Travon were complete BS but was throttled by Twitter( FBI & CIA)

Add MLK Jr. to your list

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If the media can so overtly gaslight and straight up lie to our faces the way they are everyday, why wouldn't they simply lie about historical events that none of us were alive to account for.

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They can and they most certainly do.

One part about American history that is outright true. We were born out of rebellion and being taxed unfairly to a tyrant. And we wrote a constitution that absolutely gave the tools to freedom by the people and for us.

No matter our exact roles in every war we've been in, do bear in mind that our country was originally the baddest arse country birth ever.

The real danger of today is that half of us have learned to resent the flag and all of America's founding principles. We MUST start re-education program to remind our divided countrymen about this.

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But now.I find myself questioning everything from the Civil War, Great Depression, WW1, WW2, JFK, Vietnam, and 9-11. If the media can so overtly gaslight and straight up lie to our faces the way they are everyday, why wouldn't they simply lie about historical events that none of us were alive to account for.

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... on page 50 of ToE thread ...

>>> this is ALL ABOUT :

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a fighter who refused to take a dive (a fighter from 1924 )

#2 --- a memo

#3 --- an internship

#4 --- a necklace


Truly how everything has gone down

Just amazing

Because God said "NO"

The more you learn about history from serious study, the more that you realize what we do not know about what actually happened.

The most important thing to remember is that history is not past events. It it’s the record of past events. If it’s not recorded, it’s not history. It’s lost.

It seems like a really easy point to understand, but people are still fooled by it.

Since the recording of the event is critical to history, the recorder… matters. And most people read history and don’t even question who wrote it. They should.

#3 --- the internship was not posted on page 50 of the ToE

But it was posted, I think, on page 2050 of the ToE

IF that was posted on page 50, they would have figured it out and killed the ToE thread way too soon.

Instead the thread lasted way past 8000 pages.

Much of what I learned about WWII came from the firsthand accounts of both my grandfathers and my great-uncle, who were all in the European Theater. Two of them landed at Normandy D+10 and D+12, and passed through France and eventually to Belgium and fought in the Bulge, and ultimately crossed the Rhine into Germany, one to Buchenwald and the other to the outskirts as Berlin fell.

History books tell a good part of the actual events, while personal accounts can sometimes be criticized factually due to emotional involvement... But my family elders weren't the kind of guys to embellish tales, and we're pretty straightforward. There are major things that the history books deliberately left out...

The books don't tell you that it wasn't only Patton that wanted to continue the war beyond the fall of Nazi Germany. The troops that had battled all the way across Europe and then eventually saw the aftermath of what the Red Army did to men, women and children along their path towards Berlin, also wanted continue the fight and destroy Stalin and his army. The Reds had just cold-bloodedly slaughtered everyone they came across, no matter the age. If they saw them, they killed them, of they didn't capture and rape/torture them first. Our boys were happy to be coming home after so long, sure, but the overwhelming majority of them went home knowing with certainty that the war was unfinished.

When you are trying to convince men to charge machine gun fire head on, you have to lie to them.

I question everything I’ve been taught about “history”.

“Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.”

Never been more true.

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Walter Cronkite.

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Was a commie sympathizer, if not an outright commie himself.

More than anyone he turned popular opinion against the Vietnam War by calling it unwinnable.

Don’t get me wrong, I think we should not have gone there in the first place, but once committed we should have fought to win.