The lessons we don't want to remember.

I was reading a piece by Victor David Hanson on the revisionist history being taught in our schools and around the world today. It as a great example of how our schools are failing. Young people don't understand the sacrifice made by their grandfathers to make the world a better place.


Revisionism holds a strange attraction for the winners of World War II. American textbooks discuss World War II as if a Patton, Le May, or Nimitz did not exist, as if the war was essentially the Japanese internment and Hiroshima. That blinkered and politically correct focus explains why so many Americans under 30 are simply ignorant about the nature and course of World War II itself.