Just sayin’.....we’ve given a total “pass” to the questionable aspects in McCain and GHWB resumes lately.
It’s called the fog of war. The American public believed Colin Kelly had his crew bail out and that he did a suicide dive into the battleship Haruna. He got a medal of honor for it.
In reality, the Haruna was nowhere around, he got a DFC for his bravery. And Saburo Sakai was there and described his shootdown. He said there was no suicide dive, but he said the bravery of the B-17 pilot in the fight was amazing.
And the Battle of Bunker Hill was really more like the Battle of Breeds hill, Paul Revere’s ride wasn’t really like Wadsworth’s poem, and the Washington Cherry tree incident was a writers fantasy.
But all of those things combine to give a nation it’s narrative. Screw any low life’s who enjoy tearing them down. They are no different than the people who tear down confederate memorials.