Posted by Vernon McClanahan
October 4, 2011 -
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Imagine one day you were at a family Christmas party and one of your cousins told you the story of your great grandfathers life. With your curiosity brewing you go to your father and he tells you a very similar story but in greater detail as told to him by his grandfather and his great grandfather before him and he even had a book of family history written by your great grandfather for you to read so you gain better understanding of your family history. Then one day years later while going through some old family boxes you found while cleaning out your grandfathers attic you came across the lost journals from your 3rd great grandfather that told in great detail the life of your great grandfathers and origins of your family history and it filled in many of the blanks the others had left out. Now imagine, to your shock, that it told a very different version than the one you had been handed down by your father that was written by your great grandfather and even more shocking is that it made more since to you. So much more since that it rocked the very core of your self perception. Which version of the family history would you believe? Would you be ready to accept this new truth as it was presented? Even if it meant having to reject some of those things you have held as truth up to this point? Or would fear of ramification cripple you?
