Quote Originally Posted by vegan_scot View Post
Columbus was no hero. He was a greedy opportunist who accidentally sailed to the wrong place and brutally subjugated the people he found there who welcomed him with open arms.
If I may add a quote here: "It's not personal; it's just business."

But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, it is important to remember that course of history, and certainly the lives of many on this forum, would be decidedly different without the influence of this man.

So, Happy Columbus Day.