I always enjoy these conversations. Looking back at various times; Washington was thought to be incompetent, Patton was a butcher as was Grant. Along the same lines, we have "revisionists" today who bemoan the acts of people long dead, accusing them of all sorts of crimes. These folks, of course, like to pontificate "from the high moral ground"....as they drive across the nation in their air-conditioned SUV's slurping on their latte's. One one occasion, #1 son came home ticked off as his history teacher in COLLEGE stated that ALL US Army personnel in the 1st wave at Normandy had "below average IQ's" because the generals knew a large percentage would die. Sent a letter to the "professor" asking if he considered Teddy Roosevelt Jr (Phi Betta Kappa) as one of those with a "below average IQ", seeing as Teddy was in the first wave, and had suffered a heart attack just weeks before the invasion. Also informed said professor that you don't take and hold a hostile shore with idiots. Closed by stating that it was my opinion that there is evidently no such restriction in the selection of history professors.