Youth today think history began in 1980. An early contestant on this season’s American Idol heard an American bomber going overhead to its base nearby in Hawaii.
He said war planes scared him. When someone mentioned WWII, this twenty-something said he thought that was just a video game.
Older folks increasingly live in an entirely different world from youths. Maybe that’s always been the case.
I knew a fellow that is late 30s to early 40s that had never heard of the Korean War.
One time I quoted Bluto and the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. He thought that happened.
The guy was really intelligent and sensible otherwise.