[ZULU]

I can't argue with you there.

But I don't think the Pope should have issued a blanket apology for the Crusades. As a matter of fact, I think we could a few regiments of Templars right about now.

[af_vet_rr]

But I don't think the Pope should have issued a blanket apology for the Crusades.

I think a big difference though, is very few of us can trace our ancestors back that far, with any degree of certainty (at least about who they are).

With Mountain Meadows, you have plenty of descendants (thousands literally ), you have people who know the names of their ancestors, and so it's personal (like I mentioned with my cousin-in-law).

150 years may seem like a long time, but in a genealogical sense, it's not that far back - you could literally have people alive, right now, who are only four generations removed (and a case could be made for three but that's stretching it) - they would be elderly, but they would have grown up on stories of what happened to their GGrandparents or GGGrandparents.