re: #163 ralphieboy

It’s amazing what a few centuries can do to transform an historical figure into an icon. Sometimes it only takes decades, as with Ronald Reagan.

Googled it a bit (Guy Fawkes Day aka Bonfire Night) and one major reason the name has stuck around is that there were official government sanctioned commerations of the event (the Gunpowder Plot) for a century or so afterwards. They started anti-Catholic and eventually went secular it seems, turning into a social holiday for bonfires and fireworks.

I doubt the US government is going to sanctify McVeigh’s name in that regard. So he and his co-conspirators will be dusty footnotes before too long.