<nitpick> Cruces </nitpick> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
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