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"Think of those around the world who cannot bow their heads in prayer without risking their lives. And then think of how blessed we are to be Americans."

Until that trip to New England, we had no idea that Provincetown was the real site of the Pilgrims’ first landing in 1620, not Plymouth Rock.

It was indeed noble of President Lincoln, in 1863, to declare the last Thursday in November a national holiday. Wait. What? In recent years, controversy has swirled around what really happened at Plymouth Rock. The list of Pilgrims' misdeeds feature everything from Christian fanaticism to child abuse and the cruel treatment of Native Americans. Much later, Thomas Jefferson, who owned 600 slaves, fathered at least six children with one slave, Sally Hemings. Like the rest of us, Pilgrims and presidents are broken vessels, helping themselves to forbidden fruit. Which brings me to an easy pea...

Too many of us who called ourselves Christian chose to retreat from the cultural battlefield.

2000—Republicans go to court to stop manual recounts in Florida. 1956—The last pockets of resistance are suppressed in Hungary. 1940—In Taranto…