Youth today.

[Serenity]

Sad to say, at the years go on the youth of today is going to care less and less about what happened in those dark days.  As for me when I was in HS, I couldn't wait until we got into WW2 but it didn't seem to cover it too long.


  to the vets as well, regardless of what country they were from

I've been the same way, but every year they manage to skip over it. In the mandatory Hawaiian History class, we got the usual bit about how we got bombed, and then America became as bad as the Nazis for imprisoning Japanese citizens, and then how little Japanese and local kids are the heros of the world for joining the 442nd... Oh no, our classes aren't at ALL biased... but that was all we hear about WWII. Finally this year I get into AP US History and think "Yay! This is college level! We can do some great stuff!" only to have our teacher announce on the first day that he would skip over all the details about any war.

[Lusche]

Without learning history we are doomed to repeat it.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

   - Mark Twain

[Anaxogoras]

Sophomore history class, I was the only student who knew in which year WWII ended.  No kidding.

[Masherbrum]

All of history is important.

Five words never rang so true.   Quoted for truth.   

[Serenity]

Sophomore history class, I was the only student who knew in which year WWII ended.  No kidding.

We have a cheat-sheet in the harbor for that

[uptown]

My 12 year old knows alot about WW2. He's forever doing reports on the subject. But he is not indicative of the rest of his classmates. Like his ole dad, he loves history of all kinds.

[Eagler]

history for todays youth is last friday night ... the future is this friday night

[-tronski-]

meh, all the parents in twenty or thirty years will probably whine about how the kids of then don't know anything about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

 Tronsky

[bongaroo]

I'm sure you could, but I could come up with a lot more things on the president now, then you will with GWB, and he's only been in 3 months. Let's do keep it on topic.

::cough:: BS ::cough::

Sorry you've got so much to hate about in 3 months.  He's only trying to dig us out of the hole the former dug us into.

And I'm done because we're going to lock the thread with this crap.

[texasmom]

Don't be too disgusted or disdainful with others around you kiddos who don't know that much about history. Instead share your enthusiasm with them.   And then once you've got a family of your own, your love of history can be passed on to the people who matter the most.

[Cthulhu]

::cough:: BS ::cough::

Sorry you've got so much to hate about in 3 months.  He's only trying to dig us out of the hole the former dug us into.

And I'm done because we're going to lock the thread with this crap.

Bosco, I knew you were a "hater". Classic dodge response from the enlightened younger generation. Attack anyone who disagrees with you. This is the new definition of tolerance. But never mind me, I've only lived thru 11 administrations.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

   - Mark Twain

And since we're quoting Twain:

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”

   - Mark Twain

[Cthulhu]

Don't be too disgusted or disdainful with others around you kiddos who don't know that much about history. Instead share your enthusiasm with them.   And then once you've got a family of your own, your love of history can be passed on to the people who matter the most.

Leave it to Mom to come in and give everybody a hug.

[mechanic]

 The 'youth of today' throughout history knew and cared just as little about history. Nothing has changed in the youth of the last thousand years, all that has changed is history became politics and war became final.

 We now live in a time of mass research, developement and invention on a scale thought impossible one hundred years ago. The future is infinitely more bright for the youth of today than anything they could look back on over the last two thousand years of history. Who can blame them for not caring about mass murder and rascism from the thousand years before 'their time'?

 Most of us here will have been born in the 1900's. Most of the youth of today and tomorrow will have been born into the 2000's. I think some of us may overlook how significant a marker we have witnessed both sides of. This is the third set of one thousand years in the widely accepted western modern human history.
 Those of us who crossed that void will have to be left behind in the past or split in two for the future.

[FiLtH]

  What I see is the youth of today sees the success we have had in the past as something that is inherited. They dont think of all the people that went to college and learned all the things a productive nation needs. I always think of that story of the Grasshopper and the Ant. Where the grasshopper played his fiddle all summer while the ants worked and he made fun of them, and when winter came the ants were safe and warm, and he froze to death out in the cold.

[mechanic]

At least the grasshopper was free to make a choice even if it was the wrong one.