If we are going to take "American heros" down a peg based on what they did before events that immortalized them then lets start with Martin Luther King jr.
Good point. But some folks here do delight in pointing out MLK’s very evident flaws.
And in Washington’s strike on Trenton his men were up all night on a frigid mid-winter night to take on an elite military unit, of of those improbable feats of fortitude and daring such as you’d find in a work of fiction. Brilliant!
