Comment on Judge Says Trump’s Attempt To Rewrite History At National Parks Is Illegal by K`Tetch

It’s the sort of thing we Americans used to be able to criticize wholeheartedly because our country would never stoop so low as to rewrite history to please whoever was currently in power.

Say what?

It's been a mainstay of US history, to the point there's whole AMENDMENTS based on it.

The second amendment is based on the idea of armed citizens working as a fallback military. It's based on the history (which at the time was only 15 years prior) that US Militia under Washington defeated the British. And its a compelte re-write of the history that there were tens of thousands of Spanish and French troops posing as militia. And that's why the very first attempt to use the 2ndA militia was a massive failure (the worst in history in fact, despite a 10% advantage in numbers) that almost led to Washington's impeachment (and did spawn the first Congressional investigation, causing Washington to call the first ever cabinet meeting, and eventually create Executive Privilege to block it)

Or there's a lot of people who celebrate the founding of the US Marines as November 10 1775. But that's not when the US Marines were founded. They were founded July 11 1798; the Continental Marines founded in 1775 were completely disbanded in 1783, and not a single person who was in it joined the US Marines.
History was re-written in the 1920s, by Marine Commandant LeJeune. He was tired of the Marines being 4th in order of precedent, so decided to just re-write history, claim the Continental Marines as US marines, and claim to be the oldest so they could go first. the US Navy did the same thing in the 1970s, didn't stick quite as well.

Then again, read a history textbook in Georgia and you'll find it claims the state seceded for 'states rights', despite the actual statement saying it was all about slavery, and the CSA making slavery a federal issue.

Those are some pretty major ones just off the top of my head...