Paul Tomblin wrote:

I'm still bewildered at how many USian adults don't know that the US
tried to invade Canada during the Revolutionary War, and lost, and tried
to invade Canada again during the the War of 1812 and lost, or that
during the Wo1812, British and Canadian troops actually burned the White
House, and that's why it's white - to hide the smoke stains on the marble.

And Canadian kids don't learn about the Battle of New Orleans at the end of
the War of 1812 and other campaigns late in the war when smaller American
forces managed to humiliate large British forces U.S. soil, just as tiny
British and native forces had humiliated the huge American armies trying to
invade Canada at the start of the war.

Few countries do a good job teaching their own history, or even try, for
that matter--the one exception is probably Germany, which was forced (by the
occupying forces) to go through a painful soul-searching after WWII.

Now back to airplanes.


All the best,


David