Honor, Greatness, Columbus

Playing off of Time Magazine's Person of the Year, for the purposes of this essay, Christopher Columbus, who was of Italian origin, is the Person of the Second Millennium.  It's been about 500 years since he's been gone, and wherever his place is in the Hall of Eternity, this explorer made a great contribution to the world by doing more than any other person since his time to connect the world today.  Most people in the Americas, North and South, including this writer, would not even have been born had it not been for Columbus' adventurous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from Spanish Europe to, what we call today, the Island of Hispaniola, and specifically making landfall on what is, today, the Dominican Republic (Haiti being on the western side of Hispaniola).  

The following mass migration to the Americas from Europe caused some of the greatest changes in history.  The Western civilization that has overwhelmingly shaped the modern industrial world with philosophy and inventions, is now trying to be overthrown by the globalist, radical left-wing cabal in America, and their cadre of Far Left politicians, social engineers and activists.  If, God forbid, these radicals succeed, our nation would descend into 3rd world chaos and Balkanization, and 500 years from now, the handful of historians that would be left, would be writing about a different Rise & Fall than that of the Roman Empire.

[Revised on 10/10/17.]