"my wish is that it should fade into oblivion, and be replaced with a true account which I'm sure is just as dramatic, but would be as completely factual as records might allow." I couldn't agree with you more! It is interesting, as a Native American, to read this kind of propaganda and distortion of history....the freedom referred to was for a select few, at the same thime this was being"framed" by your " founding fathers", my ancestors were fighting off attitudes that they were "savages" and not even human beings.,fighting against their enslavement (yes, First Americans were sold as slaves prior to persons of African heritage), and fighting to keep their homes, farms and land. July 4 has no value to me nor do the "signers"; its just anoter day to have fun, get together with friends/family. Catherine