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Well I don't think it's a whole lot different here, drugs have made stupidity an easy purchase.Good post my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 12, 2014 at 8:01 PM
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well you had best tell your American folk to go to the Historical Libraries around the World and get themselves the truth by reading from many diverse views.
I don't see myself as a radical liberal or whatever...I actually never mention my political status nor am I eager to argue....
posted by
Kabu
on May 12, 2014 at 1:55 PM
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It is amazing just how much history is being distorated nowadays. I saw it happening when I dabbled in teaching. I find that not only are schools doing it, elders are doing it as well.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 12, 2014 at 12:09 PM
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Yes, apparently ignorance is bliss is this country as of late, and getting worse. Many topics can be subjective, but not history. Facts are facts. They might be twisted and distorted to appease one group or another, but whatever happened, happened, and nothing can change that. Regardless, many people seem to have no qualms in showing their ignorance of certain aspects of history, and will argue against something I know to be 100% factual, claiming they heard this or that which may contradict recorded history! I tend to immediately change the subject when this happens . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on May 12, 2014 at 7:29 AM
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you are making a lot of assumptions....
posted by
Annicita
on May 12, 2014 at 2:04 AM
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I am afraid people are beginning to write history without learning the facts. Perhaps it has always been so. If that young lady had been a youngster at the time of the second world war , she would have known how reluctant the USA was to enter the war. Churchill did his damnedest to persuade. Also although the circumstances were terrible at that time we could not help but feel a terrible pressure had been released on that fatal day that committed USA to the war. I guess everyone looks for ones own survival. I don't know much about the first war only that my grandfather and uncle were killed.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 11, 2014 at 11:57 PM
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