The story of the Mayflower is one of survival for people attempting to create a village on a hostile shore. By some estimates, in the first year 70 out of 108 people died.

That any survived was due to the friendly tribe of Sachem Massasoit, teaching Pilgrims native skills.

What you and I never learned was the story of the generation of Indian and white children that grew to adulthood after that landing.

The result was a bloody history resulting in King Phillips War, which devastated Indian tribes throughout New England. Philip was a son of Massasoit, Phillips' own son and wife were sent on a slave ship to the West Indies, two among a thousand Indians so displaced ("Mayflower Voyage, Community, War" by Nathaniel Philbrick.)

I mention this as there is a generational similarity between the World War II effort by one generation to defeat the hostile tyranny sponsored by Germany, Japan and subsequently Russia, and the offspring of that generation, which has just voted away their own freedom.

Americans, who became wealthy due to their freedom under the Constitution, became so greedy since WWII, that today even Walt Disney, AT&T, Comcast and others controlling broadcast stations led a persistent false narrative of political intent, to overthrow our inheritance of freedom for a tyrannical inspiration.

Howard Flora

Ledyard