Posted on 12/03/2013 10:53:51 AM PST by Kaslin
Common Core stinks but there was a lot of this sort of demented history in texts long before the CC standards came around.
Excellent piece. Thanks for the post.
My late FIL was scheduled to be on an LST in Operation Olympic after spending two days in the ocean, wounded, after his carrier was sunk off Samar in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The hypothetical question at the article’s end certainly applied to him and my family might look markedly different today had Truman not made the correct decision to drop the atomic bomb.
So students will grow up thinking Bluto was right, that the Germans bombed Pearl harbor.
Its hard to explain how we won the battles, but then lost the war and have since adopted almost all of the facsism we fought against.
The apex of the Nazification of Germany was in the resolutions approved during the Nuremberg Rally of 1935, when the symbols of the Party and the State were fused
I'd show photos, and describe the actions of the rape of Nanjing, the Bataan death march, Corregidor then I'd ask students "What should be done with a Nation that sends their soldiers to do this?
Well worth the read. If I had a school-aged child today, there is nothing on earth that could compel me to send that child to public school.
My FIL still living, (90 years old) was still in Europe on VE day. His unit was already on a ship headed for Japan when the A-bombs were dropped. I can only imagine the whoop that went up when their ship turned around and started for home.
Good article and good post.
Leftist progressives in Common Core will do their best to further 0bama and his administrations efforts to soften our young people and our military which has quickly become little more than a social experiment.
The turkey in the WH is rewriting history as one method of accomplishing his agenda.
Something so strange about FR... There is always something mentioned that I am either reading, have watched as a documentary or fiction/non-fiction movie about that subject (and this isn’t the first time I’ve mentioned this (maybe 4rth or 5th time..
Before about 6 hours ago, I had never heard of Gulf of Leyte (or Leyte Gilf)... about 6 hours ago, I had just finished watching a documentary of Battleships and Carriers, and one of the specific locations/battles, was the Battle of Leyte Gulf... gives me chills every time I see this happen o.O
Anyway, back on topic... The whole ‘education’ system (ESPECIALLY FED level) needs to be flushed and cleansed. Think it will happen within ANY of our lifetime?
This is pure insanity
If the purpose is to encourage “critical thinking”, why not have students read this book?
http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Castle-Philip-Dick/dp/0547572484
they went home?
didn’t we land a huge occupation force after they surrendered?
I'd just prefer 'flushed' at the Federal level, as the Federal government has no Constitutional authority to regulate the purely state and local matter of public education. As for the second part of your statement, without a rock-ribbed conservative President, sadly, no.
One of the best articles I’ve read on the decision to drop the bomb was in the Weekly Standard a good number of years ago. Titled “ Why Truman Dropped the Bomb”, it not only makes the case for dropping the bomb, it very effectively demolishes the revisionist Progressive case against dropping it.
I’m on an old smartphone, but know its out there online, if someone wouldn’t mind finding it and posting a link.
I guess the next step will be to burn all the history books written before the new ones were published?? Maybe a huge rally at the mall in DC where we can throw the books into the bonfire as we march by. Where did I see something like this before? BYW, I do remember VJ day, I was awaken at 4 am by the cheering and noise making of the neighbors celebrating in the street. “The boys are coming home!” was the most common phrase used. It was a time when the “United” States was just that. Today, does anyone one really care anymore?
My grandfather, a combat engineer, was on an Okinawa bound ship as well. Made it home sometime in late September or early October.
My Mom was born the following July.
I can do the math on that. My kids have been able to do the math on that since they were very young. Using the Enola Gay as a teaching tool helped. I once offended a group of Libs who were standing in front of it whining about how “evil” it was by LOUDLY telling my daughter (then in early elementary school) that if it weren’t for that plane her grandmother, her father and therefore SHE would never have existed.
Operation Blacklist, the occupation of Japan, peaked at 350,000 troops at the end of 1945. Leaders estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Allied casualties if Operation Coronet (the second planned invasion of Honshu) lasted more than 90 days. So yes, most of them did go home.
Here's an interesting fact: in preparation for the anticipated invasion of Japan, 500,000 Purple Hearts were manufactured, and as of 2003 there were still 120,000 of them left after the Korean, Vietnam and all other conflicts involving American soldiers. Combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan had Purple Hearts on hand for immediate presentation to wounded soldiers in the field.
Here you go!
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