What year was the Declaration of Independence written and adopted?
Who did we fight for independence? When was Washington president? Can you complete the phrase, “Taxation without _______?” The answers he aired featured blank or bewildered looks and were funny and dismal. It turns out Washington was president in the 1920s, and Lincoln was president in the 1940s. On this time-scale, we have WWII, Vietnam and Reagan to look forward to and endure. And some were pretty darn sure it was the Germans we fought to gain our independence. I’m pretty sure they weren’t referencing the Hessian troops at Trenton. No one got it right. But this isn’t really surprising. The American Revolution is the forgotten war in American history. Want confirmation? Go to a bookstore and see how many books there are in the American History section on the American Revolution, especially as compared to the Civil War, WWII or Vietnam. Name movies about the American Revolution. I can think of four: “Drums Along The Mohawk”, “1776”, “Revolution”, and, stretching it a bit, Disney’s “Joh
