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Referring to ourselves as freedom fighters in the Revolutionary War is indeed a bit of history being written by the victors.
Being a Quaker, I'm appalled by the concept of war. Being a thinking, living human being, I recognize it as a possible situation. But when an elder Quaker who I looked up to (he was a teacher of mine in college, which only compounded the situation) argued that war had become "more civilized" I experienced a feeling of nausea. It's like saying capital punishment has become more humane. Yeah, it has. But we're still killing people at the heart of it.
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