Posted on 12/07/2005 12:17:38 PM PST by Stoat
The fact that such essential points as what you bring forth are intentionally overlooked by modern 'historians' is a perfect illustration of the truth of President Bush's recent speech where he spoke of those who want to rewrite history. It happens every day and regarding most any and all subjects and concepts.....thank GOD for the internet, talk radio and alternative news sources, without which the Left could continue to steamroll over the truth without impediment.
My dad is a WWII vet (Guadalcanal) and a 30 year Air Force retiree and he is getting more & more liberal every year.
Is this me in 25 years?
I don't know if you've seen this particular video, but Rudy Guliani is featured prominently, and at one point he says something like, "People need to see these images so they remember the horror to keep it from happening again. If we have too many euphomisms, we forget what really happened."
A couple of weeks ago I ws reading about a study of seniors in high school about 1/4 of whom could not find the United States on a glove. And almost 3/4 of didn't know where Iraq is.
I personally believe, that many U.S. Americans, may not have maps....
glove = globe
Sorry. I personally believe, that many U.S. Americans, may not have maps.... Could be, but I'm more inclined to believe that they took one look and decided not to lay it out flat, for fear of not being able to figure out how to get it folded back up.
They do have maps, but they look like this.
Looks pretty up to date to me.
I won’t disagree with you about history being much better learned 100 years ago than now. But I’d like to point out that as time marches on, events that were key to one generation start fading in importance to succeeding ones. I grew up in the 50s and reminders of WWII were everywhere. When the fleet was “in” and filled Long Beach harbor most of the ships and many of their crew had seen action. Crippled vets were selling pencils downtown and every adult, veteran or not, had memories of the war. Old World War II movies were about half the movies shown on TV. As kids, especially boys, we knew all of the planes, ships, and most of the battles fought.
The Civil War was just leaving living memory. That was the big unit in the history books. We rarely got up to WW II in history class and we already knew more than the history books had to tell us.
Today kids see WWII as something that happened an unbelievably long time ago. Many blend WWI and WWII in their minds so I’ll have students ask if the Kaiser was Hitler. Few have living relatives who can or will share memories of the event. I do my best to present as much information about the war as I can in the time I have to cover it. I’ll take a couple of weeks, but my text covers the war in just 5 one day lessons. I could spend a week on the Battle of Britain alone.
Time flies. My 6th graders don’t really remember 9-11. They’ll be in high school in just a couple of years!
Most people are going to be offended if they decide you’re calling them ignorant. ;)
I lol’d :)
Sad to say, but with the situation as it is -- with the public schools failing to put any emphasis of it, and even several major universities not requiring any American History courses, it is fair to say that a goodly percentage of our population is ignorant. Too bad if that offends them.
Too bad. :-) If it makes some of them even think for a moment about turning off their Playstations and picking up a book that's about something other than programming then I'd say I've done quite a service for humanity. The day that I begin to worry about offending someone because I dared speak the obvious truth is the day that I need to log off of Free Republic permanently.
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