Pearl Harbor Remembered

[P5se Camelback]

... I suspect today's kids would understand the experience of Pearl Harbor just fine since many of them saw extensive coverage of 9/11 in real time. ... Ralph

Unfortunately, many of today's kids have bought into their teachers' contentions that 9-11 was an inside job, carried out by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their cronies in government so we would have a reason to go to war, rather than to offer the hand of peace and friendship to Al Quaida and the Taliban!

You may think I'm making this up, but I was recently accosted by high schoolers as a "War Monger," when I was walking in from the parking lot to go into the Publix Super Market while wearing a golf shirt with a large American Legion Florida Post 323 logo emblazoned on the back! What followed was a lengthy discussion wherein they explained to me what they had been taught ... and believe me, their minds had been made up for them ... they weren't about to be confused by facts! We are the big reason for unrest in the world ... the mid-east would cease being a dangerous, violent place if we would just lay down our arms, de-nuke and offer the open hand of friendship to those who are falsely potrayed as enemies!

The whole experience ruined my day! I now worry about the future of this once-great county if left to these under-educated lemmings who know nothing of history or how we got to be the great country that we are today!!