When I discovered what it was when writing the book, I learned that even I as a young boy had not been told the entire truth of the first Thanksgiving, and the story I was told was somewhat mild.
Over the years, it got worse and worse and worse.
- I could probably sum it up by saying that the story of Thanksgiving as generally taught in the American public school system was that a bunch of haggard people from Britain arrived at a desolate spot at a very cold time of the year and didn’t know what the hell they were doing and didn’t know where they were and had no idea how to live.
- And then they met some Indians, some Native Americans, and the Indians saved them...
That’s essentially the story of Thanksgiving that people were taught...
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