[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.

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

why'd they yank a Pearl Harbor thread?

[Hatteras]

World War II?!! Already? Who finally won World War I?

[IN Farm Girl]

I used to work the reference desk at a major US university's undergraduate library. One day, I had a guy come up and ask how to find information for a report he was doing on WWII. I suggested to him that WWII was a pretty broad topic and he might want to narrow it down to a specific area--say, Pearl Harbor--and pare it down further from there.

The response I got? "Who's she?" I kid you not.

[Martins kid]

I used to live near Pearl Harbor and every year would sit on the shore of Pearl Harbor during the memorial service. Such a beautiful peaceful place for a war to begin unannounced with such terrible violence. It is true that if you dig down into the sand lining the harbor a foot or so you will still find the burnt oily layer deposited during the attack. Being there touched me deeply and I'll never forget it.