I was glued to the show last night on KPBS. This piece shows how much of the story is left out of the history books. And just imagine, since history is written by the winners, there is another entire half of the story left out of the history books (Japanese, German side).

Side anecdote:

Just now, I remembered how one time someone demonstrated to me how everything we learn of history is highly biased to one side or the other. He said, “You should be able answer this question without any problem.” “How many survivors were there at Custer’s Last Stand in 1876?” I said, “Well, duh!, everyone knows there were NO SURVIVORS, that’s why it was called a massacre.” Then he said, “Wrong answer! There were at least 1000 survivors. They were just all Cheyenne and Lakota Indians.” That was a powerful example showing how biased I was in my thinking.