For the Capture of New York

[deValcourt]

Phillip
I did not know. I found this out just today.

Ah well, you should have played it up; the suspense, tension and mystery were all great story attributes. Plus, we got to find out from Art about the WWIII badges I never heard of before.

There's no need to be modest here. (Even if the truth is not as exciting. - What we have here is what some people call the "Liberty Valance Effect" from the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. At the end of the film after a writer has been taking notes to write this old cowboy's biography he is told the truths that don't jive with the legends about the cowboy's life and tells Liberty Valance on his way out the door refusing to hear anymore "true" versions of the legends ascribed to Valance: "When the Legend becomes fact, print the legend."

Often times, this is how history is recorded. The above is a safe version of George Orwell's 1984 novel which starts with the famous quotes: "He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past." This is spoken by the the lead character who works in the Ministry of Information in the novel.

To stop my rant, I highly recommend Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm - books ONLY!!!! I am rereading them now and it's making me rethink a number of basic assumptions I had about communist life and the scum-eating rats that get paid a pittance to turn their fellow citizens in (creating mass hysteria like the Salem Witch trial and later the McCarthy "Commie" hunts.

Anyway, read the books when you get a chance - you might see some of it happening around us right now!:yow

Phillip