"No, I like all you Navy boys. Every time we've gotta
go someplace to fight, you fellas always give us a ride."
Posted on 04/24/2013 2:33:16 PM PDT by NYer
Bob and Sarah Fisher were checking their daughter's homework last week when a social studies assignment caught their attention – it criticized the United States for dropping the atomic bomb during World War Two.
"Both of our grandfathers were in World War Two and this worksheet makes it seem as if they were the bad guys," Fisher told Fox News.
The Fishers have a daughter in eighth grade at Victory Junior High School in New York. They said the anti-American slant in the homework assignment was shocking.
"As if somehow the Japanese were the victims and that the United States had no right to do what they did," Fisher said. "It totally takes away from the sacrifices made by their generation and we won't stand by and not say something about it."
The "Why Did the U.S. Drop the Bomb?" homework assignment was created by EdHelper.com.
"But even now, people are still dying from the effects of the atomic bomb," the worksheet states. "The effects were so awful it is necessary to ask the question, 'Why did the US drop the bomb when the war was nearly over?'"
The students were then given four "possible" reasons why the United States dropped the bomb including the idea that "Americans believed Japan would never surrender."
The worksheet also suggested the U.S. bombed Hiroshima because 'the bomb cost a lot of money to develop and the U.S. wanted to use it. It would have been difficult to justify not using it after such a vast financial investment."
Students were instructed to write an argument against the Hiroshima attack "which you hope will stop the bombing."
Neither the principal at Victor Junior High School nor the superintendent returned numerous calls seeking comment.
One of the reasons the Fishers were so shocked is that they have been relatively pleased with the education their daughter has received at the school.
"We check homework regularly and have always been happy that history has been taught truthfully," Fisher said. "We have never seen homework that has been twisted or put a leftist spin on history before, which is why we were shocked by this one."
They said they've seen reports about liberal bias in public schools and they fear it may be creeping into their community.
"We do think that many public schools lean left – that they take history and put a liberal twist on it," Fisher said. "By not saying anything, it just makes it easier for them to slowly erode our educational system and change the true history of our country."
But the couple was especially proud of their daughter, Amanda.
"The funny thing is that our daughter thought it was wrong before we even said anything to her about it," she said. "She said that she couldn't argue against it because the United States had a right to drop the bomb in retaliation."
God Bless him. I have lost two uncles who fought in that war, and one great-uncle.
I've been twice...the first time was probably a dozen years ago and there wasn't one Nipper; on the second trip we saw a couple of very small Japanese tour groups. They were very quiet.
Yeah, apparently, the Marines just swam there.
Cott, many teachers are as braindead as zombies. In most cases, they don’t get to choose what is taught-That’s decided by the teachers unions, who we all know are mostly Alinsky drones. I am not excusing this teacher, as he/she should refuse to teach anything biased.
"No, I like all you Navy boys. Every time we've gotta
go someplace to fight, you fellas always give us a ride."
My brother’s neighbor in Santa Cruz is an Indonesian Christian taken prisoner as a boy by the Japanese along with his father. They were in a forced labor camp. He said that if we hadn’t dropped the bomb, neither of them likely would have survived. The Left is big on “narratives” for a reason. We have to learn to do the same-Take oral histories and WRITE THEM DOWN, so that the truth can never be erased.
“Not one exhibit on the Navy’s role in the Marine Corp. LOL.”
Not even Corpsman?”
There is a small recognition. They have a plaque from Okinawa with a Marine Corp pin for every casualty. They use a navy anchor to denote corpsmen casualties. Only Navy reference I saw. It is really stupid, almost childish. But I love the Marine Corp. don’t get me wrong. If I am ever trapped in a third world hell hole and they want to send a rescue team for me, don’t send delta force, no rangers - send the Marines.
Or apparently let the Soviets go in and take Japan to make it a Communist state.
The Navy had a pernicious habit of treating Marines like dirt in the years before and sometimes during the Second World War. At places such as Tarawa there were Navy officers who went out of their way to walk around or otherwise avert their eyes to avoid saluting a superior ranked Marine officer or Marine General officer. The Marine Corps commemorates this traditional and perhaps adverse relationship.
Fair enough.
PS: If you go to the museum there isn’t even a mention of the Navy, not even a hint.
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That may be why it isn’t called the Navy/Marine Corp Museum. <:
Course if I am there you will always see something in regards to the USN.
Yep, pretty soon the only things they’ll teach our kids about WWII will be our Internment of the Japanese, Dresden, and the dropping of the atom bombs.
Imagine that, 65 years later.
“Neither the principal at Victor Junior High School nor the superintendent returned numerous calls seeking comment.”
The reason this crap happens is because conservatives refuse to get organized and show up at schoolboard meetings.
Five-hundred parents need to show up and demand that the principal and superintendent be fired. You gotta raise a stink or this crap will continue to happen.
Screw your Saturday barbecues, your kitchen remodeling and your stupid pursuit of mammon. Your kids and your liberty are more important. If you don’t get that, you deserve slavery and every misery visited on you.
The left appears that in order to achieve a moral victory, the victor must suffer equal or greater numbers of casualties. It's only fair.
My Father was also on a troop ship steaming for Japan when the bombs were dropped, and the Emperor capitulated. Dad was to be in the first or second wave of the invasion. Later he was assigned to the Phillipines to help offload the armada, destroy tons of materiel, and evidently get in a few firefights (Purple Heart).
I got a chance to personally thank Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets in 2003, via email, for piloting the B-29 which delivered the first atomic ordnance used in war. He just replied, “I’m glad your father made it back!” So am I, and I have no patience for jerks who would change history and sell our country out.
“You’ve got to hand it to the Japanese soldier: they are not afraid to die. And die they did!” — GySgt John Basilone, U.S.M.C. (1916-1945)
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