Or look for a minute at our most famous assassinations: Lincoln and Kennedy. Ask yourself. Would there ever be enough evidence to change the way that history is written about them? Surely enough already has been presented to prove a grand conspiracy in both cases, yet so strongly has it been resisted by proponents of the official story that most do not even know such evidence exists let alone recognize the extent of its legitimacy. Can you imagine what it would take to contradict definitively the history in those thousands of books? Just the fact that there are dozens of living historians who would muster their might against it means history isn’t going anywhere. What are they supposed to do, start their research over, publish second editions, retractions–and in the case of some, apologies? Not likely.
They have the upper hand, the proverbial high ground. Remember that when the official story was written, there were those near to if not within the government who had excellent reasons for the official story to read the way it read.

Interestingly, the same set of rules could be applied to my paying job, software development. Of course, beautiful coding in LotusScript is not forever and well-written code will almost never be read. There was one developer we knew who changed the header line in every program he touched to identify himself as the author. We mock his memory continuously, though he has been gone from our company longer than I’ve been with it.

I wonder if because I’d been trained as a historian, with a special love of footnotes, I have more respect for commenting my lines of code….

As two of my under-grad, and one of my grad school professors were products of his tutelage, I was well acquainted with “The Commandments of the Muse.”

Just a point of clarification, I am the historian of the National Museum of the U.S. Army Project. I left the National Park Service in 2004 when I accepted a position at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, and in 2008, assumed my current duties. Thank you for the kind words.

Glenn

However, #6 is simply silly.

Another item should be added that “respected” historians who engage in plagiarism (goodwin, ambrose, ellis, et al) will be outed, drummed out of the service, and forever shunned for their sins.

Regards,
Michael