Yes. Honouring and celebrating our ancestors is a good thing. But honouring and celebrating the history of our country is something else,
  History is written by the winners in the blood of the losers. It is not all something to honour and celebrate. Mistakes were made.
    So, then, where is the freethinking and critical thinking that points out some of the negatives we would do well to study so we can avoid them now and in the future?