“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.” PeopleWayNeedsFirstsStillsRealEndsFactsLyingLinesHeroCapableIdealsFellowsBottomSoldierHarmTalesConfusedLegendsBottom LineLegendarySergeantsFellow Soldiers Author:Jessica Lynch
“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles” WayWritingWellsPersonsFactsStoriesTogetherLeftRolesGonePaperCleverTalesNarrativePreservesTallLegendsSelectedEditedTall Tales Author:Steven Hall
“Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.” PeopleWayBelieveFactsSeemsRefuseAvailableMythLegends Author:John Mason Brown
“Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.” MayFactsAmericaHumanityBeliefChanceCommonMissingTerribleCivilizationAncientDuesFormerFeaturesLegendsNeverthelessSiteAccustomedTemptedSimilarityStanleyMiss America Author:Frederick Soddy
“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.” KnowsHeartPersonsDoeFactsHappensEarthOrderHeavenImaginationChristianityDyingParticularBecomingConsequenceMiracleHistoricalMythCeaseLegendsNobody KnowsOsiris Author:C. S. Lewis