Jack of Harts

I completely missed Columbus Day this year. I blame it on Middle East Peace and me being excited about the stories I’m writing. You could also blame it on a news media that wants to forget Europeans ever ventured out of Europe to explore the world unless it is to say how many innocent peaceful natives we killed when we did it. Me, I like to celebrate the greatness of man and what we have accomplished.

When Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety two, he opened up a new world to all of us. Was he the first? No. Was the second? Also no. But the Spanish Empire followed the path he found to build many of the places we live in right now. Even us Americans. Never forget that the Spanish colonized the American Southwest first, long before we expanded into those areas and brought our version of civilization to them. His voyage is one of the most famous voyages of the Age of Discovery when Europe stretched out to sail the ocean blues and find faster routes to places all around the world.

We built the world we live on based on voyages like these, and we should never forget to remember and celebrate them.