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Truth is what happened, idealized myth isn't.

I agree. I wasn't alive then so I'll have to sift through one story or another. Every story will contain some truth and some mistakes or distortions. One era's "truth" is the next era's myth.

Which myth is it that is being brought down anyway? We're not arguing some concrete thing here over what happened or what didn't happen. My main complaint all this time is I resent self-righteous busibodies who presume to tell me how I should talk, as if I were an insensitive, ignorant dolt who needs re-education. As far as I am concerned, the people who think that adopting new phrases actually makes anything any better are either condescending or jingoistic or both.