BarbaraD wrote on Apr 29^th, 2009 at 12:38pm:


I think you are romanticizing the good ole days ... I was cleaning up some stacks once and came across my mother's history book, dated pre WWII.  It lamented the murder of the brave Colonel Custer at the hands of blood thirsty savages.

Kilroy 2.0 wrote on Apr 30^th, 2009 at 11:39am:


Agreed 100% Gena.

"History is written by those who've hung heros."  Quote from Braveheart.

Brew wrote on Apr 30^th, 2009 at 11:59am:


I sorry, I thought I was clear. There is a lot to be learned from history if you can find an accurate version of both sides of any conflict. I was writing in reference to earlier comment about schools and history books.

There you will only be taught about the tale that is acceptable at the time to both the Government and Teachers.

If I was clear and you were just giving me a hard time 

Gena

Monty,

I'm really not romanacising the good old days. I remember back about 1960, I had to write a paper on the Korean War. There just wasn't that much info on it (too recent), but it made me curious to find out more and as I got older (and didn't have to), I found more and more info on it and actually "learned" something about it. Years and years later I found myself in Korea and it was really neat that I actually knew a little about the country.

The same with Europe. When I was in school, I had no idea I'd spend a good part of my life traveling to foreign countries, but I did. thanks to the history lessons I was "exposed" to, I actually knew a little about those countries and enjoyed them a whole lot more than I would have had I not had a clue.

There were places my husband and I saw that we'd never have thought about visiting had we not "heard" about them from history books - some were not exactly on the "tourist" path, but they were well worth visiting.

Guess I'm just a history buff, but I've got an OLD set of encyclopedias that were published in 1948 that I still love to go thru and see just how much the world has changed (ok come on - I have a "current set" but the old one is "fun").

The bad part about getting "older" is that you can remember most of history "first hand".... (shut up Chuck!)

Hugs BD

Know what you mean Kevin - I met a guy from Syria in the airport in Frankfort and we were talking (politics of all things) and he commented on our US President (Reagan) and said how "violent" he was. I was totally shocked, then he went on to say, he'd seen all his movies. And this was a well "educated" guy. I almost spit my drink all over him laughing, but he was serious as can be.

My mother gave him one of her business cards and for years afterwards she received a card from him around Christmas every year. He really was a nice guy.

So I guess it's all in what you're taught or see or hear...

Hugs BD