Pearl Harbor -- do kids know what it means?

[reaganaut1]

Question for Freepers this December 7. Are your kids taught in school about the attack on Pearl Harbor? Unlike many educational theorists, I think certain facts ought to be memorized, and what happenened on December 7, 1941 is one of them.

[dfwgator]

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

[rhombus]

Is that one of the new Disney theme parks? ;-)

[frankenMonkey]

Do kids know what it means?

Only if you teach them.

[dfwgator]

Wasn’t it the name of that terrible Ben Affleck flick?

[mouse_35]

My kids both learned about it in school, but they knew about it WAY before they were taught about it by the teachers. It was covered in grade school for both my kids and I know it was covered in my daughter’s HS Am. His. class. My son has Am. His. next year, so I don’t know if they are still covering it.

[Mustng959]

Well if they don’t teach it in schools, my kids know about it as I remind them it’s Pearl Harbor Day every year and that they have a great, great uncle resting beneath the waves aboard the “Arizona”.

[Gaelic]

Here in Berlin, NH the VFW post doesn’t even have the American Flag at half mast.

[napscoordinator]

I think if they don’t now they will when they are older. I don’t think I truly understood Pearl Harbor until I joined the Navy. I mean I knew we were attacked by Japan but that was about it. I know a heck more now. lol.

[mware]

During our morning exercises, a group of students in civics class read over the intercom, the speech given by FDR asking Congress to declare war.

[mware]

We than had a moment of silence for all those who have died serving their country.

[HardStarboard]

On December 7th, 1941, I was a four year-old sitting between my parents in the front seat of the Dodge coming home from church. The radio was on. Suddenly my Dad turned to me and told me to shut up!

Later that evening, I learned what Pearl Harbor was and what "war" meant sitting with my Dad in the living room.

The Ahmadinejad and the Islam Fascists are plotting new and more horrific Pearl Harbors just as surely as Yamamoto planned December 7, 1941.

[Keith]

You can betcherass my students are hearing about it today...all five classes...

[mware]

Bulletin boards in our school.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Same here...in all six...;-)

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[weegee]

It was a result of American imperialism and FDR’s Jewish advisors if we are to believe the anti-American propagandists of WWII.

They are saying the same things about Bush’s response to the 9-11-2001 attacks but we aren’t supposed to question the patriotism of the anti-American propagandists this time.

[SoftballMominVA]

Our principal talked about the significance of the date this morning during announcements. It is taught in VA as part of 6th grade history and 11th grade US History

[weegee]

That's a good display. Something that may be good to expose Americans to again are Norman Rockwell's "four freedoms":

[dakine]

Why is this post relevant....