I went to school in the 1960’s.
70-80 years before that was the Spanish American War. As a high school student I could hardly tell you anything that caused that war other than the Battleship Maine, and the Teddy Roosevelt charged his men up San Juan hill.
WWII, while fresh in our collective minds from our fathers and elder uncles, is ancient history to high schoolers of today.
For example, a few years ago Dane Cook, a comedian, did a bit about jumping into a pool that had fire on the water from gas or some such thing. Our kids found the bit amusing—in a dark humor kind of way.
My wife and I (in our mid forties at the time) were aghast. We had heard stories from our uncles about jumping off sinking ships into oil burning on the water—and the horrible burns that such a thing caused. We would never, ever, find a comedy routine about such a thing funny. It would be like telling concentration camp jokes.
It is the fading of memories and the progression of time. The Spanish War monument at Arlington is mostly unvisited. Yet at one time it was a main “attractiion” there.
WWII will just be remembered in the movies and by a few history buffs.
I was visiting my wife in a hospital and a nurse asked me if I was a WWII guy. I said "Yes" and she asked me if I was at the battle of Bunker Hill. So we might look bad but that would really be old. I'll have to ask my wife. She still looks good. Some of us are still around. Thank God.
All they’ll teach about WWII was that the Soviet Union defeated HItler single-handedly, we interned Japanese citizens, and dropped nukes on brown people.