On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Kris Sisk wrote: > >> >Meanwhile how many people realize that we had concentration camps >> here for Japanese Americans during WW2? >> >> I think that's standard ed in the US. You left out the Germans and >> Italians. > > Really? I never heard squat about it in school. Then again my history teacher > in high school was hired for his ability to coach football, so that might > have something to do with it.
I'd wasn't directly schooled on it either (no football coach history teacher here). Only reason I knew about it from when I was in elementary school, is because my gifted teacher's daughter did a cool presentation on the camps. Knowing things like that totally twisted me for the rest of my education, BTW. Generally we save stuff like that 'till college (although it sounds like others got it earlier as part of a normal curriculum, which is super cool). Uh Yup... having a really good teacher really twisted me- there aren't as many as there ought to be, you see. Columbus, Lincoln and Washington are interesting figures too, that we generally save the nitty-gritty aspects of until kids aren't kids anymore. Nice refs about some other interned folk, Sam! And isn't it super-cool that some people's stories are getting recorded for posterity? http://archives.nmsu.edu/rghc/index/pow/hanna.html ('Burque!) But you've never heard of Dresden? The war's been over for while now... ;-) It was also part of the Ken Burns deal, IIRC. Something about us losing our soul, so to speak? Pretty sad stuff. But *so* useful, life-wise. Like "the Crucible" or the Red Scare (the Red Scare! Holy moley! I remember thinking, "we cannot have been that retarded, we went through this in the 1600s" about McCarthyism), or the Milgram experiment or the "Brown eyes, blue eyes" stuff... Failure is just as important to remember as success. It should be rightly categorized as failure tho. I'm pretty sure Sam defends McCarthy, IIRC. Don't you, Sam? Wasn't such a bad thing, because there /really were/ soviet spies among us? Some logic like that, unless I've got him confused with another. If so, sorry Sam. :Den -- It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. Margaret Bonnano ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318459 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
