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Well, “all history is written by the victors” is actually something I picked up from a character in Call of Duty. And while it may be a mere video game, there is actually weight to those words. The American Revolution, the Civil War, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, the American Civil War, the French Revolution, the War of the Roses, any other conflict through history, the politically correct viewpoint always seems to be the victor’s, and the loser’s viewpoint, whether right or wrong, gets covered over.

“Not all that is written is necessarily true” was a play on Tolkien’s “all that is gold does not glitter”, other than that I didn’t quite have the exact quote in my head, and I was thinking ‘not all that glitters is gold’. But at any rate, there are plenty of falsehoods that are broadly accepted as truth (for example evolution, among a million other things) but that are obviously still not true just cause they’re written in books everywhere.

And the last part is my mission statement. I believe in searching for answers to every question, and questioning every answer till I can satisfy myself that its absolute truth.

Its honestly been too long since I’ve read much history, ever since I signed my life away to a paying job 🙁
But my areas of interest are the Scottish War for Independence, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. Given how long its been since I’ve read any such material, I will refrain from starting any arguments on what is or is not fact regarding those eras. Although I did find it interesting to note that the Civil War happened at the same time as the Oregon Trail and all that westward expansion, and many settlers may well have been Southern sympathizers who realized the South’s impending defeat and wanted to start their lives all over from scratch. This is an idea that I will eventually be exploring in my current primary project, which has completely abandoned its origins as a speculation about my imaginary twin, and instead become a story about a fictional nation of city-states, originally founded in that time period, and its role in the current world.