Posted on 12/03/2013 10:53:51 AM PST by Kaslin
Thanks for posting this.
The Progressive assault on our culture is nearly complete.
They have systematically perverted the minds of our children.
And we have let them push God from our culture, instead of faithfully following the biblical injunction: “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” Deuteronomy 6:6-7.
but there was a lot of this sort of demented history in texts long before the CC standards came around.
Yes sir there was...now its being entrenched and reinforced country wide.
They don’t care about thee and me so long as our kids and grandkids are good little Nazis.
Yes, we need students to learn about the "hero" who ran Auschwitz and the "hero" who led the rape of Nanking, to create a moral equivalency to the people who tried to stop it from spreading.
These are the things that drove the rest of the world to war.
-PJ
All I can say is God bless the memory of Col. later Gen. Paul Tibbets
Thanks!
Starting with the war record of his great-grandfather, who once told me that he knew *exactly* why he was overseas after visiting a German concentration camp, and who would have looked at pap like this article with a gimlet eye.
I was in DC during the mid 90s Enola Gay exhibit controversy.
At the time I remember thinking “we’ve won this round, but they’ll be back. And 15-20 years ago there won’t be nearly as many WWII vets who can stand up and voice their outrage”
I’m distraught that I’m being proven right ...
Ditto my grandfather. He didn't see a problem with dropping the bomb. "They started it, we finished it, and I was glad not to need to go there after a year in Europe.", was his attitude, approximately.
I read a little about Operation Olympic. The spearhead - (if memory serves) the 4th and 6th Marine divisions - were written out of the plan by H+36 because it was assumed they'd cease to exist. Dropping the bomb had a terrible cost, but all other alternatives were worse.
My pleasure. Great article too.
I don’t know how many were stationed in Japan but most got out. All I know is a lot of war-weary vets of the European theater were ready or in the process of deploying to the Pacific and lucked out. My Dad spent almost a year back in the states before he got out. I missed being a military brat by two months.
I expect enlistees had to serve out their time while draftees duty ended with the actual war.
Operation Olympic had an order of battle of 14 divisions at landing. Operation Coronet had 25. By contrast, Operation Overlord in Normandy involved 12 divisions.
I think we had nearly a million troops in Japan at the start of the occupation.
“Common Core stinks but there was a lot of this sort of demented history in texts long before the CC standards came around.”
I taught Jr High history for many years. When it came time to pick a new text book, I used a quick and dirty method for thinning the herd. (This was back when there were more than two textbook publishers, so I’d have lots to choose from.) If a textbook implied through its illustrations that it was women and blacks who won WWI and WWII, or if it used more space depicting the internment of the Japanese than the entire Pacific War, the text was rejected out of hand. I don’t mind these being included, of course, but they really weren’t what the wars were about.
I once had a text that devoted more space to the role of women spies in the Civil War than it did to Lee, Grant and Shrman combined. Another neglected to mention the Wright brothers but had two entries for Emma Goldman. Finding good history texts has always been difficult, but now that there is little or no competition in the publishing industry, it is nigh on impossible.
These themes are also spread in English class where activist teachers select readings that favor a Trotskyist view of history.
Just as I finished reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn's CANCER WARD, I noticed the lifeguard at the pool reading Sylvia Plath's THE BELL JAR. She was not reading it for psychology class but English. But the contrast struck me between Solzhenitsyn and Plath. One had been through World War II, the Gulag, and deprivations yet loved life and his fellow man. Plath was a spoiled brat who was known for repeated suicide attempts and she had so little to offer the reader. But over and over again our students are reading the Plaths and not the Solzhenitsyns.
Surprisingly and sadly, I have found out some private ‘Christian’ schools have Common Core too.
The American Revolutionary War to overthrow tyranny and preserve natural rights was a good war. And wars to end dictatorships that deny natural rights are good wars. Preservation of natural rights is a real good that is a requirement for life proper to a rational being.
You might have to go to the international level. This stuff stinks like KGB Active Measures stuff they spread around in the 60's, using influence agents in eastern elite academies and society, outlets like Pacifica and CBS, and the New Left and its organs. (Including Bill and Hillary's SDS and Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn's Weathermen.)
As I’ve stated before, eventually the only things they will teach kids about WWII are:
-Hiroshima and Dresden
-How the US was complicit in The Holocaust because they didn’t bomb the camps
-The Japanese internment camps.
Apologies for typos .. :/ am on heavy pain med.. hope to rid of them in a couple of days ;^) (and totally agree with your statement).
Ten years down the road, it will be the Republicans under President Bush who started world War 2. Hitler, Japan, etal only wanted to peacefully co-exist. The rape of Nanjing, the attack on Poland, the Low Countries, the attack on Pearl, the attack on Russia, the Bataan Death March, was merely boys having fun.
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