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On Apr 2, 2006, at 6:06 AM, George Huxtable wrote:
> As I said in the earlier mailing, "it seems that he falsified the
> position of the light so as to
> make a more dramatic story out of the first "Sumner line". In my
> eyes, that rather diminishes the
> stature of Captain Thomas Sumner". That remains my view.
George,
We have an imperfect hero, or a flawed hero, but hero nonetheless
(hero in the figurative sense here), as he did indeed advance the
practice of navigation.
Fred
