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A powerpoint presentation came through tonight about Dwight Eisenhower's directive to take as many photographs as possible of the results of the holocaust - the piles of emaciated, naked bodies in pits, the camps, the survivors so that this part of our history would never be repeated, nor would anyone dare try to repeat it. The holocaust occurred about 60 years ago. Not that long ago. A man of 60 today is a fairly young man. I remember when I was six, 60 years ago.
In the UK, since it is greatly Muslim, to placate them, the textbooks show no reference to the holocaust...so it doesn't exist. The children won't read it, hear it discussed, understand the cruelty meted out by a dictator, the tyrant, the beast, Adolph Hitler, or how he came to power. Anne Frank's book has been questioned as too sexual to be read by young students who should be reading it here in a town not far from here. I think that is shocking.
Somewhere buried in this blog is a post about just this subject, and a woman I knew in Oregon who quit her job in a textbook company when the history began to be watered down in the 70s.
If we have no past, how can we not repeat our sins, or learn about our victories?
We can't reinvent or redesign our heritage, our history. Yet this is what our public schools and this administration, and several others before, conservative and liberal, have done. Does you child have a civics class? Does your child know the three branches of government? Could they pass that test from 1898? It's on the internet - you should print it out and ask them to take it.
If you are under 40, can you pass it?
Why can't our students learn the truth?
Please read everything your child reads and complain loudly for better books. We must return our public (government - you see, they come with a price and that is the dumbing down of children) schools to teaching our history and civics.
Books should never be banned or destroyed. In banning and destroying, we diminish our great minds to the least common denominator and dumb down our children to acquiesce to the slave masters. Think about it. Get involved.
On a windy, empty prairie overlook in Montana stands an old one room school in the golden grass. The teacher's desk was on a platform. The windows looked out over the prairie - there was a barn for the horses and a well. The wind played among the chinks in the boards, but you could feel the past - the little Stockade School produced students year after year who shaped Montana into the strong, resourceful, resilient proud people they are.
Montanans know their history; know their destiny.
They are energized by events in the White House and on Capitol Hill. They will tend to this matter shortly, I am sure.
1 comment:
This is precisely why I have over the years collected old American History books when I visited flea markets, garage sales or the local library sold old books by the bag-load! They may have not have given full attention to issues such as slavery, segregation and McCarthyism but I can add my explanations when the grandkids read them. Above all, they did not attempt to sanitize WWII and Vietnam as today’s PC texts have done by omission or spin, right up to recent events!
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