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Nagasaki. Brits should at least know the results of that battle, if not the minute details... Just as Americans should know the results of Gettysburg.

I agree that they should—but I kind of get why they don’t. Who, today, gets worked up over Napoleon anymore? For at least a hundred years craziness was often manifested by the sufferer’s belief that he was Napoleon. By today’s psychiatric standards, such beliefs would be considered another form of normal and deniers would be mocked and sued.

The Civil War will be always taught, at least a little, because of its link to the end of slavery. WWII? The Holocaust Deniers may win over time. The Japanese atrocities are pretty much already down the memory hole, so that war may also get short shrift.

As an aside, I find the battles of Midway and Gettysburg similar in that they both so complex, with so many heroes and battles within the battles, that I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the complexity of them.

Totally in agreement. I’d love to buy you dinner and chew over these events. Where are you located? PM me if you’re in Oregon or California.

***The Japanese atrocities are pretty much already down the memory hole, ***

We are still hunting Nazi war criminals while many the Jap war criminals skate.