[the scotsman]

If it took film and TV to make you aware that Britain fought in two world wars, and the immense sacrifice and contribution we made, one has to ask:

‘god almighty, whats in the history you are taught?’.

[heylady]

god almighty, whats in the history you are taught?’.

WWII was the last section in our History books but we never seemed to have time in the school year to cover it. There is little difference between the reporting in WWII and our current conflicts in the Middle East. If you don’t pay very, very close attention you would think that it was only Americans fighting over there.

[Trailerpark Badass]

As an example, from the brief period I spent in public (govt) schools, I would have thought the Founding Fathers were George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, and Cesar Chavez.

And that was 40 years ago.

[Verginius Rufus]

Good grief. I didn't think I needed to insert a sarcasm tag.

I don't know when I first became aware of the British role in WWII, but I was reading history on my own at least by second grade, long before I had it as a subject in school in fourth grade. My high school history course only got as far as the 1930s and I don't think any of my college history courses got as far as the 20th century. My mother had a large dictionary which included maps--one showed Europe as of shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 which they had tried to bring up-to-date. I'm sure I had heard of Munich, Hitler, Churchill, Dunkirk, etc., when I was still in grade school.

My father was a WWII veteran but fought in the Pacific Theater (Guam, Okinawa), not in Europe.