[Cthulhu_]

I do wonder if they went in there thinking they're "forging this epic, heroic legacy for the ages", or if that was hindsight / US historians drumming up the story for the history books.

If they shat themselves to death halfway, would they have been remembered as much?

[ivanbalepin]

> the men (and woman) of the party probably weren’t thinking much about their place in history

that's like the first sentence