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The Amazing Untold Story of John C. Moore - First Mayor of Denver, Colorado
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| Parent | Parent Candidate |
| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Post Date | , 12:am |
| Description | But let’s look back eighty years prior to our triumphant victory parades of VE and VJ Day in 1945. Let’s look back 140 years before our Abrams tanks rolled into Baghdad and statues of Saddam were toppled. Let’s look back to a time when there was no “we” “us” or “our”– Let’s look back to the brutal, bloody, Civil War which divided “us” into two separate Nations between the years of 1861 and 1865. A time when we were either “Yankees” or “Rebs”- A unique era in our history when two different Americans- Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis were called “Mr. President” and both could rightfully claim that title. A troubling time when a war was fought by Americans, against Americans, in America- A war that left 750,000 of us dead on our soil.
In the case of the Civil War, how did we effectively and accurately write the history of a war we fought against ourselves? What do we say of our enemies when they are us? Simply put, we say nothing. It is perhaps the greatest spoil of war that the victor writes the history- omitting, hiding, changing, glorifying and altering in general the events of a particular conflict to fit their ideal and their agenda. Below is the story of one of the men who fought in our war against ourselves. This man was on the losing side, and, subsequently, much of his life story has been erased by the victor. His name was John C. Moore. |
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