[Monterrosa-24]

Common Core stinks but there was a lot of this sort of demented history in texts long before the CC standards came around.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Excellent piece. Thanks for the post.

My late FIL was scheduled to be on an LST in Operation Olympic after spending two days in the ocean, wounded, after his carrier was sunk off Samar in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The hypothetical question at the article’s end certainly applied to him and my family might look markedly different today had Truman not made the correct decision to drop the atomic bomb.

[AU72]

So students will grow up thinking Bluto was right, that the Germans bombed Pearl harbor.

[Vince Ferrer]

Its hard to explain how we won the battles, but then lost the war and have since adopted almost all of the facsism we fought against.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Gleichschaltung (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlaɪçʃaltʊŋ]), meaning "coordination", "making the same", "bringing into line"), is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of society. The historian Richard J. Evans translated the term as "forcible-coordination" in his most recent work on Nazi Germany. Among the goals of this policy were to bring about adherence to a specific doctrine and way of thinking and to control as many aspects of life as possible.

The apex of the Nazification of Germany was in the resolutions approved during the Nuremberg Rally of 1935, when the symbols of the Party and the State were fused

[Navy Patriot]

I'd certainly have fun with this if I was a teacher.

I'd show photos, and describe the actions of the rape of Nanjing, the Bataan death march, Corregidor then I'd ask students "What should be done with a Nation that sends their soldiers to do this?

[lonevoice]

Well worth the read. If I had a school-aged child today, there is nothing on earth that could compel me to send that child to public school.

[jazusamo]

Good article and good post.

Leftist progressives in Common Core will do their best to further 0bama and his administrations efforts to soften our young people and our military which has quickly become little more than a social experiment.

The turkey in the WH is rewriting history as one method of accomplishing his agenda.

[GeronL]

This is pure insanity

[oblomov]

If the purpose is to encourage “critical thinking”, why not have students read this book?

http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Castle-Philip-Dick/dp/0547572484

[Bringbackthedraft]

I guess the next step will be to burn all the history books written before the new ones were published?? Maybe a huge rally at the mall in DC where we can throw the books into the bonfire as we march by. Where did I see something like this before? BYW, I do remember VJ day, I was awaken at 4 am by the cheering and noise making of the neighbors celebrating in the street. “The boys are coming home!” was the most common phrase used. It was a time when the “United” States was just that. Today, does anyone one really care anymore?

[paterfamilias]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

Say to students: When I was reading the history textbook, I noticed that the writer included profiles of three war heroes, all of whom fought for the Allies. The writer did not include similar profiles for fighters on the other side. I realize that this choice reflects a political assumption: that readers want to read about only their side’s heroes.

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

[WalterSkinner]

..my late father, stationed near Shanghai in '45, would have no doubt become part of Operation Downfall--and I might not be typing this...

All I can say is God bless the memory of Col. later Gen. Paul Tibbets

[wbill]

WBill Jr will learn everything he needs to know about the war from me. And, likely, on his own, once he's old enough.

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.

[mjp]

but may still feel that “good” is not an appropriate adjective for any war.

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.

[dfwgator]

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.

[sport]

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.

[Impy]

Seriously? Nam and Iraq are one thing.

WW1 even, I don't think we needed to be involved with that one.

But these people are on the Jeanette Rankin train? Stick a flower in Hitler's rifle? Cuckoo! One wonders what they think of the Revolutionary War, perhaps peaceful protest against the Brits was the answer? A hunger strike like Gandi.

Domo arigato Mr. Roboto.

[kathsua]

I’m not an historian but I do remember that it was a strong anti-war movement that kept America out of WWI for several years and prevented America from entering WWII until Pearl Harbor.