I wonder how they teach World War 2 in schools today?
Listening to some liberals, World War 2 history consists of the alleged crime of interring Japanese-Americans, and the alleged crime of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I wonder if they teach the significance of D-Day to this generation of children. Or do they teach that we imprisoned our own people, and that we were wrong to use an atomic bomb.
And don't forget, Dresden.
For many public school students, June 6th comes AFTER they’ve concluded their final exams and other testing...even after school is finished for the semester.
I taught junior high history for many years. It was hard to find a textbook that did not emphasize the internment of the Japanese. And if you just looked at the illustrations you would be led to believe that very few white males were involved in our war effort at all.
As a very early baby boomer, I grew up surrounded by fresh memories of the war. Everyone very much older than me remembered it. The books I read as a kid—Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Baa Baa Black Sheep, half the movies on TV were all about it. But, time passes and people and events that can never be forgotten are forgotten as they fade from living memory. The battle of Guadalcanal is a good example of this. I doubt that D Day will ever be forgotten as it is a turning point in the war. But much of the rest will fade from popular memory.
I don’t know that is necessarily a failure of the schools as much as it is the inexorable passage of time.
They teach nothing of any military actions, at least not directly. The teaching is always a back-handed indictment of some American dominance. The authors of historical "facts" will pull some little Japanese student, and discuss her feelings and about how her family had to find clean drinking water after the "great explosion from the sky."
Or, they might explore how some little French youth living in Normandy, but having an uncle who lived in Germany, felt about the Allies coming ashore and killing their only milk cow.
That's the only significance to many liberals in academia.
I wonder how they teach World War 2 in schools today?
They most likely start with... America: The Aggressor Nation
Don’t forget Dresden. To the liberals Dresden was a city of ‘’no military importance(a lie) and the RAF and the USAAF fire bombed it unmercifully ‘’ killing hundreds of thousands’’(another lie, total casualties were less than 30,000.)
Do you think that the current administration would want students seeing what happens to a regime built on a cult of personality around a leader? It would also give lie to the liberal line that War never solved anything.