not a blunder - they knew what they were doing
In full agreement. Too many people these days their sense of history and when time began is formed based on some movie they've seen. After all why read it for themselves when they can just watch some movie about it even if it isn't very accurate or listen to some liberals version of re-written history in a liberally slanted or biased classroom. IMO this is dangerous and self-defeating. I'm reminded by what George Santayana once said on a similar subject:
George Santayana. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy)
was a philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.