History Is Written By Those Who Hang Heros

I was watching my favorite movie, Braveheart, the other day when I hear this quote from the movie. As a kid, watching the movie and hearing it really made no impression on me, but this go around, it really got me thinking. What if here in America, we were beaten by the British, and our history was written by those who conquered us. We wouldnt hear tales of the vallient heros and founders of our great country, instead we would read a mere snippet in a British textbook about some man named Patrick Henry, who inspired a rebellion, was crushed, tried for treason in a British court, and hung at the fine London Gallows. Thankfully, we Americans won our revolution and we remember Patrick Henry for his incredible quote, "Give me liberty, or give me death!". In the same parallel story, we have the Native Americans who were crushed by our hand. What if they would have destroyed us in the begginning? Their historys would read of the founders of Jamestown as nothing but hairy beasts who walked around in clanky armor firing their boom sticks. So you see, history really is written by those who conquer. Think about how many viewpoints have been lost at the tip of the sword, and the end of the beyonet.