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A little Veterans Day humor.. maybe 🤔

Subject: Jesse Watters on X: "Happy Veterans Day! Do people know about our vets and the wars they fought in? Johnny finds out t.co/8rnJzLic39 / X


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The cold war was in December. I cracked up, in a deeply depressed way.

I remember years ago a popular British newspaper asked schoolchildren questions such as 'Who defeated the Spanish Armada?' The various answers included Gandalf.

Apparently horrifying and an indictment of how history is taught – if at all – in many schools. But then, schoolchildren have been known to deliberately give wrong answers as jokes when they know doing so won't disadvantage them…

For example, one of my pupils, a great railway enthusiast, when asked where Wellington wrote his despatch after Waterloo, replied "Clapham Junction."

Fox News, hardly the most balanced source of reporting, ask 100 people and edit the five worse sets of answers for the article.

Fox News, hardly the most balanced source of reporting, ask 100 people and edit the five worse sets of answers for the article.

I'd call it news entertainment.

All news is about the freak factor, not the truth. Freak sells more than the truth.

Wolfhag

"Fox News, hardly the most balanced source of reporting"

There is a "balanced source of reporting" out there? 😂 Come on.

FYI, they all edit. 🙂

This was for the humor of it. While doing living history: I've been asked if the monuments were there during the battle? Did they leave the cannon there after the battle? (They thought That was why they were there today). Quite a few had no idea who the Union was and who the Confederates were. Who were blue and who were gray.

So i can believe the answers.

Just try and enjoy it. Arthur enjoyed your examples. 🙂

Reminded me of this from "Two and Half Men":

"Alan: Charlie, get your priorities straight; I'm trying to get him into a decent middle school! After he's accepted, he can learn that Sacajawea wasn't… [reading Jake's test answer]: "a bag full of Jawea"."

When I was in high school, and dinosaurs roamed the earth, one of my classmates ask the teacher:

"Do I have it right that WWII was fought against the Japanese and WWI was fought against the Germans".

This was at a time when we had parents who fought in WWII and grandparents who were young during WWI!

Balanced reporting, listen to both sides, and then sift through the bullS@#t to find the truth.

It's true though, not all the people they ask are as stupid as the ones that get on the show, but the lack of knowledge regarding basic history is appalling. I was speaking to a couple of younger 30-40 year old supposedly intelligent skilled construction workers at a local job site and mentioned a quote attributed to Stalin. Well, not surprisingly the quote wasn't known to them, but when I mentioned Stalin they both looked at me like I had three heads, they had never even heard of him.

BTW, why do veterans who at the very least sacrificed the years of their youth and often their health or even their lives get one Day, but we have a whole month for the LGBTQ etc.?

Funny but sad. History is rarely taught in a fashion that allows for any kind of genuine knowledge instead of either some kind of cultural sackcloth and ashes whinging about past sins or blind rah rah pseudo-patriotism. Neither focuses on basic facts such as who, what, when and where and ideally challenges the student to identify the why.

"why do veterans who at the very least sacrificed the years of their youth and often their health or even their lives get one Day, but we have a whole month for the LGBTQ etc.?"

Maybe it's because the amount of homophobia is proportionately greater than the amount of anti veteran rhetoric.

Based on sacrifices, the veterans should get a full year.