Columbus simply sailed a ship. Why is Columbus a legitimate hero? He went into the unknown. As much as Neil Armstrong, Columbus stuck his neck out and managed to get back in one piece to his homeland.
Anyone thinking I’m being melodramatic, didn’t read about the El Faro cargo ship lost at sea with all 33 hands during Hurricane Joaquin just a week ago.
Columbus had no idea what he was venturing into. And candy-ass revisionists centuries later think they have the moral high ground to judge this man. He didn’t go seeking native americans, and his adventure into the unknown is the basis of our remembrance of him. Not some politically correct fantasy about Indians dreamed up by lazy-minded academics of our day.
Neil Armstrong knew where he was going. Neil Armstrong knew where he had been. Neither statement is true of Columbus.