When I was a tadpole, John Paul Jones was my hero. I read a Landmark biography of him, and I'm sure there were comic books about him, too. My interest in history comes from those days.
So my heart went pitapat when I saw that the US Navy is helping in the search for his famous flagship, the Bonhomme Richard. It was from that ship's deck that Jones shouted his famous, "I have not yet begun to fight!"
Of course, as always happens with heroes, it turns out Jones was a more "complicated" person than Landmark Books ever suggested.
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