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kids ignorant of d-day
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Re: kids ignorant of d-day
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
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"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
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Its a shame alot more young people dont take a greater intirest in our countries history.
That being said the majority of people i consider mates know a fair bit about the war.
When i did higher history at school the only thing we covered was how the Nazis went about gaining power etc in Germany. As part of the course we never once mentioned any important battles of the war or anything great/important that our country did/achevied. Thankfully my lecturer was himself intirested in the subject so we got to hear afair bit about the actual events of the war.
Someone earlier on in the thread mentioned about the computer games generation. Inevitably as time goes on people will forget about the events of the past and as someone else quite rightly so said our education system is pretty poor when it comes to telling us what our country has actually done. That being said alot of the computers games that are out nowadays and in the past few years have been focusing on the second world war. Some might say its wrong to exploit it in such a way but if it had not been for these games then i would never have found out what a great subject it is to learn about. They may pretty much all be historically inaccurate in terms of weapons/units/numbers used but atleast it gives people a vague idea of the important battles and to how important D-Day was.
It is very saddening however to see other younger people that do know nothing about the war and dont seem to care about what happened. If only they knew how we could be living such diffirent lives right now if it wasnt for those brave men that fought for us. In some ways its a shame we're not more patriotic like the Americans, in primary school we should all be forced to know what sacrificies our grandparents made for us and be proud of it. Older people dont get enough respect these days. :fadein:
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That being said the majority of people i consider mates know a fair bit about the war.
When i did higher history at school the only thing we covered was how the Nazis went about gaining power etc in Germany. As part of the course we never once mentioned any important battles of the war or anything great/important that our country did/achevied. Thankfully my lecturer was himself intirested in the subject so we got to hear afair bit about the actual events of the war.
Someone earlier on in the thread mentioned about the computer games generation. Inevitably as time goes on people will forget about the events of the past and as someone else quite rightly so said our education system is pretty poor when it comes to telling us what our country has actually done. That being said alot of the computers games that are out nowadays and in the past few years have been focusing on the second world war. Some might say its wrong to exploit it in such a way but if it had not been for these games then i would never have found out what a great subject it is to learn about. They may pretty much all be historically inaccurate in terms of weapons/units/numbers used but atleast it gives people a vague idea of the important battles and to how important D-Day was.
It is very saddening however to see other younger people that do know nothing about the war and dont seem to care about what happened. If only they knew how we could be living such diffirent lives right now if it wasnt for those brave men that fought for us. In some ways its a shame we're not more patriotic like the Americans, in primary school we should all be forced to know what sacrificies our grandparents made for us and be proud of it. Older people dont get enough respect these days. :fadein:
My Thoughts.
Hi GhostBear,GhostBear wrote: If only they knew how we could be living such diffirent lives right now if it wasnt for those brave men that fought for us.
My Thoughts.
My general asseesment of the majority of people, let alone kids, is that there IS a lot of ignorance regards our "freedoms" ...which are exprienced more as "entitlements that are taken for granted"
Many don't know that the freedom of (whatever) that they are living right now, only exists because great actions, conflicts, sacrifices, and blood was shed to make it so., and the freedoms "fought for and saved" that they take for granted now, are vulnerable.
We live in a bubble (less so since 9-11 and this whole Terrorism focus) of ... illusion of security... many not even realizing how very INsecure we really all are and unconcious that our rights and freedoms are only ours until someone overpowers us and takes them away, and that they are ours currently, because WW2 sacrifices and succeses saveed and held onto our freedoms when we could have lost them all ...
My 21 yr old daughter ... had some light bulb moments about her freedoms ... and finally made the connection btween freedom now.? Thank a vet. She wasn't taught about WW2 in school(not much) and graduated. But it took me telling heer a story about our relatives at reast in Beny and and and ... bottom line? She gets it.
Proud Mom in Canada
