saphura Ah yeah, the Annexation of Hawaii. I didn’t know that bit about Grover Cleveland. The military coup was also a chance for the US to show off one of its shiny new warships, which quite frankly was a very unnecessary and very extra display of power. The navy had just started building the things and were dying to show them off. Not to long after that we went to war with Spain because one blew up but I digress.

I didn’t know that bit about the new warships, but yeah, big surprise there </sarcasm> 

It just makes me so angry. It was one of  the first things that really dropped the veil of what I had been taught in schools vs. what actually happened. The other was learning about the Texas revolution in college outside of a public school (ie. government funded) setting. How casually the government lies about atrocities it commits. I know it should be obvious, but to a someone a lot younger and a lot less jaded than I am, it’s really not.