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I have to agree with uncle bob once again. So true about the value of a degree that some people have today. Many think that simply going to school will guarantee a lifetime of easy living. Having enrolled in the lps program at the u of Penn I am amazed everyday at the amount of education that many young kids have graduated with from high school. Simple grammer and punctuation are completely lacking in their papers and homework. All I can say is things certainly have changed since my high school days!

Originally Posted by IC2

When did they do that????

Originally Posted by bobscogin

Maybe he really does mean Peral Harbor, but I've never heard of it. If he means Pearl Harbor, the Japanese did a much more effective job.

Bob

Hey guys, it's not rocket surgery...............

Perhaps, with the discussion turning to education, he's being ironic..........or even sardonic.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Hey guys, it's not rocket surgery...............

Perhaps, with the discussion turning to education, he's being ironic..........or even sardonic.

Uncle Bob - without knowing his age, I probably shouldn't comment - but as usual, will and it's a slight hijack, again. The schools DO NOT teach WWll or much of anything else that that has shaped the world we now live in - the 20th century and the first 10 of the 21st. Even my wife who is no young 'chick', didn't have much background in that, even with her masters degrees. We just watched the DVD's of the War and Remembrance mini series which takes place 1941-1945. She had no idea the Germans and Japanese were terrible and to the level they took their racial hate - and that series - mild in comparison to what really happened.

Originally Posted by IC2

Uncle Bob - without knowing his age, I probably shouldn't comment - but as usual, will and it's a slight hijack, again. The schools DO NOT teach WWll or much of anything else that that has shaped the world we now live in - the 20th century and the first 10 of the 21st. Even my wife who is no young 'chick', didn't have much background in that, even with her masters degrees. We just watched the DVD's of the War and Remembrance mini series which takes place 1941-1945. She had no idea the Germans and Japanese were terrible and to the level they took their racial hate - and that series - mild in comparison to what really happened.

Very true, Dave. Students are taught virtually nothing about WWII, or WWI either, for that matter. The people who publish history textbooks (and the schools that buy them) are selective as hell when it comes to what historic events they deem suitable for presentation to students.

Younger people sometimes ask me if I am a Vietnam veteran. I tell them "No, Korea was my war". That will usually get me a blank look as though they are wondering "Just what was that? Some kind of border skirmish or something?"

Many don't know who the combatants were in ANY of the wars our country has fought.

My kids, aged 30 and 32 and both college graduates, have big gaps in their knowledge of history even though the boy is a graduate of one of the federally funded service academies.

Now, that gives me pause.


Jim