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re: Not long until WW2 will be some remote time period for Americans...
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:01 am to AndyJ
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:01 am to AndyJ
I think a lot about what people even just a little younger than me will have experienced as they grow old. Our generation obviously had 9/11 as a world-shaking event that changed global politics for at least a couple of decades. Prior generations had the cold war, Kennedy assassination, Vietnam/60s/Civil Rights Movement, WWII, etc.
Not that these are things to envy, but they do build up a society and mark the time.
Of course, since they get to write the history books maybe it'll be along the lines of "I remember when we survived the tyrant Trump and kept Florida above water with no time to spare!"
Not that these are things to envy, but they do build up a society and mark the time.
Of course, since they get to write the history books maybe it'll be along the lines of "I remember when we survived the tyrant Trump and kept Florida above water with no time to spare!"
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Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:02 am to arcalades
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We've been there a while with ww2. We're to the point that 9-11 is forgotten.
yep, lots of young'n's have the same view of Vietnam, if they know of it at all
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:02 am to Pettifogger
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I remember when we survived the tyrant Trump
Trump's presidency will be a pretty short chapter since it hasn't really had a pivotal historic event like a 9/11 or Gulf War, or Berlin Wall coming down, etc.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:02 am to AndyJ
Today's kids don't know anything about any war.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:04 am to Reservoir dawg
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Today's kids don't know anything about any war.
Schools did a terrible job of educating the current young adults about the Vietnam and Korean wars.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:06 am to BlackCoffeeKid
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Schools did a terrible job of educating the current young adults about the Vietnam and Korean wars.
I'm pretty much VN era and we weren't taught shite about Korea, truly the "forgotten" war
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:07 am to AndyJ
A certain group will never let us forget about events from WW2 
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:09 am to 777Tiger
Everything I learned about the Korean War I learned from M.A.S.H.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:09 am to AndyJ
Tbh I am burned out on hearing about WW2. Would rather talk about other conflicts.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:10 am to weagle99
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A certain group will never let us forget about events from WW2
Juneau who?
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:11 am to weagle99
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Tbh I am burned out on hearing about WW2.
WW2 really hasn't been a big thing in the entertainment industry for awhile now. We still get the occasional movie, sure.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:12 am to AndyJ
We are about as far removed now from WW2 as The Civil War was for WW2 era.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:15 am to Napoleon
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We are about as far removed now from WW2 as The Civil War was for WW2 era.
agree, I can remember when I was a kid in elementary school, kids would bring in "souvenirs" for show and tell that their Dad's had brought back from the war, German helmets, Japanese bayonets, some kid in the second grade brought a Luger for show and tell
ETA: and he wore his Dad's paratrooper boots to school that day
This post was edited on 9/19/19 at 11:26 am
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:17 am to LB84
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Like the south does by calling the Civil War the war of "Northern Aggression"?
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:21 am to BlackCoffeeKid
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Schools did a terrible job of educating the current young adults about the Vietnam and Korean wars.
Likely because the democrats got us involved in both.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 11:57 am to Klark Kent
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brainwashing children with an altered reality of history.
and life in general...
Posted on 9/19/19 at 12:06 pm to eScott
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Everything I learned about the Korean War I learned from M.A.S.H.
I have a black and white picture of my uncle in combat fatigues kneeling on a beach in Korea. That and M.A.S.H. are pretty much my only reference points for that war.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 12:28 pm to madmaxvol
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I have a black and white picture of my uncle in combat fatigues kneeling on a beach in Korea. That and M.A.S.H. are pretty much my only reference points for that war.
My Dad was there. 7th Infantry Division. 17th Infantry Regiment, Heavy Mortar Company.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 12:32 pm to AndyJ
I grew up hearing ww2 stories from my stepfather who served in the army air corps. He was 86 yrs old when he died and that was 23 years ago.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 12:35 pm to AndyJ
It’s a shame, my grandfather was a colonel in the war but he hated talking about it so I rarely brought it up.
Now that he has passed(lived to 98), I wish I had dug into it more. Last few years of life his mind got way less sharp so I didn’t pry more
Now that he has passed(lived to 98), I wish I had dug into it more. Last few years of life his mind got way less sharp so I didn’t pry more
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