Remember that during WWII, our own government put American citizens in "internment camps" just because they happened to be of Japanese descent. Even though I had taken honors history in high school, I did not learn about this until I was an adult. I did not know anything about the Armenian genocide until today.

Here's another instance of fact manipulation. A couple of years ago, when VW re-released the Beetle, our local paper did a huge story on the history of the Beetle but somehow neglected to say that it was originally Hitler's idea. Hmm.

Being into living history, we run into this sort of thing all the time. Facts can be like statistics - twisted, manipulated and reshaped to make them palatable and believable. Research is an ongoing process and whenever someone comes up with new discoveries, they're labeled "revisionist," especially if their new information negates popularly held beliefs.

History is a funny thing. It's full of ugliness. There's no way around that. That's one fact that I don't think can be denied, though people try to do it all the time.