Regarding the Navy SEALs code name "Geronimo" for Osama bin Laden, I think the misunderstanding is based on the way all of us have learned American history: That it started with brave settlers, persecuted in Europe, who came to the New World, defeated the savages and founded a new country.
I think the citizens of this country would get a dose of humility if all history courses started with the true picture — as noted at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington — that this country was founded by carrying out one of the largest campaigns of genocide that the world has ever seen.
Such a perspective might help all of us look at events here and around the world in a different light.
Brent Flickinger, Baltimore