Don --

Well said! It's rare to find an interested party who doesn't bring some kind of bias to the table.

On a related topic, I've been intrigued by Harriet Beecher Stowe and the favorable view she and her husband had of John Brown. The worst she could say of Brown was that he was "misguided", but his heart was in the right place. And, knowing Brown to be a cold-blooded murderer, her husband gave him a substantial amount of money to purchase weapons.

But, by 1870, Mrs. Stowe writes the famous Mother's Day poem, announcing herself to be against all wars.

Go figure.