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"...Burns said he was astonished at the number of high school graduates who were not certain who the United States fought in World War II...."

Well, gee, Ken. Whose fault do you think that is?

There is a segment of society, and not an insignificant portion, who feel that all things military are bad, and that there is no good reason to fight for anything. A hint here, Ken...and I am sure you have been to many cocktail parties attended by the devotees to PBS. For the most part, they are the same people who hold the reins of power in the public schools and colleges, write the curriculums and populate the Teacher's Unions. How could you fail to miss the conversations at those parties, chatter between the same people who dumped the military into the crapper back in the Sixties and Seventies, and were proud of it. Thank goodness for Ronald Reagan.

Yeah, Ken is talented, even has a video editing feature named after him. The Civil War documentary was great. But you sleep with dogs and you are going to wake up with fleas. Those SAME people who fete you with their dinners and ooh and ahh over you Ken, are the same people who want to rewrite history to suit their needs, beginning with what children are taught in school.

By the way, SquirrelKing, this is not a commentary on you. And you hit the deconstruction aspect on the head. Liberals like to paint conservatives as the perpetrators of what they view as the already (in their minds) existing 1984, but the truth is, liberals are the true Orwellians in that respect. They already think they can say whatever they want to, and will rarely get called out on it because the media holds their water for them and operates the "Memory Hole", and the only reason they profess to hold WWII vets in any kind of esteem is because they aren't all dead yet.

Yeah. PBS is a sore spot with me, and I am all for yanking the funding on them. Sure, I like Nova and a few other things, but it isn't worth my tax dollars.