Pearl Harbor and Ford Island (comments on a pulled thread).

[7thson]

The above was my comment from the Pearl Harbor thread which I found out was pulled when I tried to post.

[LuLuLuLu]

Sadly, that doesn't surprise me. It infuriates me, but doesn't surprise me.

I graduated from HS in 1972 and learned absolutely nothing about WWII or Korea. It's even worse now.

Thanks for your service.

[MadAnthony1776]

What's a shame is that his not knowing about WWII is not an isolated case. The schools don't teach history like they use to. You know the saying, "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." I'm afraid it's going to happen because they neglect to teach the lessons that many young men gave their lives for so we wouldn't have to do it later on.

[UseYourHead]

I have met a lot of people like this unfortunately. You would be stunned to learn how many people think the Capitol of the United States is in Washington State! Kids are learning nothing and are not being taught how to learn anything either. That way, when they are lied to by campaigning Democrats and RINOs, they will believe everything they are told.

[FreedomPoster]

I'm on a couple of neutral forums where we spar with the Lefties. I find we're (I have allies) constantly giving history lessons to the youngsters (I'm 45).

The good news is that two of my best allies, both politically and on the history front, are substantially younger than I am, one about 10 years, and the other 15-20.

[asgardshill]

Yes, I hated it when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

(sarcasm OFF)

[dfwgator]

Forget it, you're on a roll.

[Blzbba]

"You know the saying, "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." I'm afraid it's going to happen "


So we're gonna be dropping a coupla more nukes on Japan?

[zook]

I think my first learning about "Pearl Harbor" came when I was about 7 or 8 years old, back around 1961 or 1962. It was talked about in a Dennis the Menace comic book in which Dennis toured Hawaii. They spent at least a page talking about the battle and the monument. Later on, my teachers reinforced what I had read with more knowledge.

I don't think kids get this kind of learning anymore.

[IronJack]

One of the best ways to redirect a nation's future is to sever its past. That's why history is no longer taught, and what little IS taught is pure revisionist garbage.

Succeeding generations won't know who they are because they won't know who WE were.

[Redleg Duke]

Several years ago, there was a survey of High School students. Most believed that World War II was started when the USA executed a sneak attack on the Germans at Pearl Harbor!

[BluH2o]

Since we're on the subject of Pearl Harbor ... yesterday, the 63rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor, our paper did a story on two local Pearl Harbor vets who served in the Navy during WWII. These two vets, didn't know each other at the time and only in recent years became acquainted and became close friends. The story in the paper shows them standing next to a map of the Pacific with places they served circled in red marker ... in addition to Pearl (between the two of them)they had served in the Battle of Midway, Aleutians, Coral Sea, Philippines, Okinawa, etc.. One of the two Navy vets died yesterday (December 7) at age 81 from pneumonia ... a week after the story was written and on the 63rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

[MadAnthony1776]

No, nukes weren't used at Pearl Harbor. I'm talking a sneak attack (9/11 would qualify) and not from the Japanese.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Another testimony of the greatness of our American public skewl system!

Really, when you think about it, this is a big thing about Japan that we have in common about them, when it comes to WWII, History, textbooks and modern day students. It's all watered down, if not removed completely.

[UseYourHead]

So we're gonna be dropping a coupla more nukes on Japan?

No the axiom speaks of repeating "mistakes".

[decimon]

Yes, I hated it when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

It was the Aleutians who bombed Pearl Harbor.

[Blzbba]

"No, nukes weren't used at Pearl Harbor. I'm talking a sneak attack (9/11 would qualify) and not from the Japanese."


We shoulda nuked Saudi Arabia after 9-11.

[Blzbba]

"No the axiom speaks of repeating "mistakes"."


I know - I was just hoping we could nuke a few cities in Saudi Arabia.

[asgardshill]

It was the Aleutians who bombed Pearl Harbor.

First fireproof polar bears, and now this.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

why'd they yank a Pearl Harbor thread?