<span>Twenty years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a massive truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The immediateimpact of the bombing was obvious. The attack not only caused death and destruction but created a storm of media coverage covering this “attack on the heartland.”</span>
Read this excerpt from a summary of events in Srebrenica. "Zina Hasanovic is one of the lucky ones - she knows what happened to her husband, Haris. As Serbian bullets raced through a group of tightly-packed Muslim prisoners, Haris, mortally wounded, fell on top of his first cousin and best friend, Mevludin Oric. Mevludin lay on the ground, covered in blood and for hours pretended to be dead. He managed to escape to tell Zina of her husband's fate. Why is Zina Hasanovic referred to as "one of the lucky ones"?
most people never learned the fate of their loved ones
Settlers had to leave their homes and travel over mountains on foot with covered wagons.
They also faced the threat of Native Americans attacking them on their way.
My answer(simple) : The Ancient Greeks gave us the idea of democracy, where "the people rule"/ the power is IN the people....
Sources say (more complex): The Ancient Greeks gave the founders of America the initial concept of democracy. Democracy by Americas ideas (quote from Abraham Lincoln) : “a government of the people, by the people, for the people.” By the people of Ancient Greece democracy meant : “power of the people,”
