I was absolutely shocked and grieved to hear that they did not get taught much about 9/11 in jr. high school, as it was considered "offensive" to some groups, blah, blah, blah. I responded that it was offensive to ME that they remain ignorant about what happened. That it was part of American history. That it delineated a change in our lives forever, robbing us of that wonderful American quality of innocence.
One girl started to tell me that 9/11 was perpetuated on us by our government. Her "evidence" was that 2 of the black boxes of the planes were never found. I told her that she should quit reading liberal 9/11 denial websites and that the black boxes of planes are not always found, particularly when the living hell of flaming jet fuel was enough to melt the steel girders of the WTC towers. I was so incredibly angry at this hijacking of her mind by libtard deniers.
So it is true folks, take it from me in the trenches, that our schools are attempting to sweep 9/11 under the rug. And so I told the kids that George Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" and that was why it was important to know the truth about 9/11.
About 98% of the kids were absolutely mesmerized by my talk. They had never heard most of this stuff. And I have to tell you, they wrote some very beautiful, moving essays.
Good lesson plan! What ages are in these classes?
I think some folks want to teach that it was more of a Reichstag than a Pearl Harbor and if they can’t do that they’ll just settle for “the planes ran out of gas” for the time being.
I must wonder: have we forgotten? During the last presidency, the war and its progress dominated headlines and conversations throughout the country. The previous president (Bush) spoke of the progress of the war, lauding our troops, almost daily.
Under this president, the war has vanished from popular perception. He now makes occasional noise about a new spat in Syrian Arab Republic but thus far without more than incidental mention of the Islamofascist menace. Google News today lists fewer than 100 articles that even mentioned the word over the past month.
When I was a youngster in grade school, we confidently identified the Soviets (or Russians) as the enemy, associated them with the evil philosophy of communism, knew that people in the enemy land lacked freedom (although I did not appreciate yet the significance of that concept) but lived in fear, and recognized a man named Reagan as our leader in the fight against said enemy. We lauded our military as the force capable of deterring the enemy from overtaking these shores and necessary to preservation of peace and liberty. Perhaps my childhood experience was not universally shared in my generation. But we had fought that war for decades and rather suddenly prevailed in freeing much of eastern Europe from the yoke of communism.
Today, in the words of one music star of the last decade, in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other fronts in this war not yet surrendered, “our brothers are dying for others who don’t even care any more.” As for liberty, even at home, it’s an anachronistic concept in the age of Obama care. None of this ignorance, however, in any way diminishes the desire of the enemy Islamofascists to prevail over us and to subjugate us as they even now attempt to subjugate more brutally the dhimmi populations of various Arab lands. Their war against us and our way of life continues. We must develop a way of life worthy of defense and defend it, or else we lose our country.
About 98% of the kids were absolutely mesmerized by my talk. They had never heard most of this stuff.
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Major kudos to you! Hoping you prompted some of the mis-led kids to begin thinking about facts rather than propaganda from the left media.