Don't worry Crewman, I'd never shoot you. I'd use my cast iron skillet frying pan ... but you're safe from that too as you're way out of my throwing range

I think you're right about "it's up to our generation" and our kids to clean up perceptions, inform, and present things as was, maybe mending some fences through understanding, while not poopslinging? One can only hope.

In any argument/stand off, the only bridge is willingness for objectivity and the ability to see things as actually is/was. Every side had it's role to play, every side won and lost many things, every side feels very strongly.

Passions run deep. Its good to hear about the what's and why's , and hows, of that too. But I do understand depth of feelings and these things, animosities etc, were very much part fof that history, and even carried into our present.

Hmmm ... dammit, I sound like a peacekeeping CANADIAN ... (one who wields a frying pan??? How peaceful is THAT? : )