Mood:
rushedOK, here's today's excuse...
Not only are we having problems with the "word processing/internet accessing/game playing" computer, but yesterday, Mr.Man's edit(film/video) computer crashed. Could it be the heat? More likely old age & too many moves.
Anyway, Mr.Man needed to transfer his project to the "office/recreational" computer. And I'm currently working an early morning gig, so no late nights for me. So, my topic for Monday, August 9, which started out with the 30th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation and his flight out of D.C., is a day late.
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What we learn and what we know,
what we remember and what we are told.
So, how many of you remember President Nixon's farewell at the chopper door 30 years ago today? I was on a family vacation visiting historic revolutionary & civil war sites. We(the adults) wanted to beat the bicentennial rush. History was very important to my parents & grandparents.
How may of you remember the Vietnam war? I know a couple of you, like me, remember the TV news coverage after school and at dinner time. We are the nameless generation, not really boomers, not really X-ers. We don't remember Kennedy(maybe RFK a bit), but we remember flower power, bell bottoms, and maybe Kent State. Shouldn't our older siblings and our younger Aunts & Uncles remember? Aren't these the people running the show now?
Can any of you gen-Xers & gen-Yers(or whatever the media is calling you at the moment)comment on what your U.S. History textbooks said about Vietnam? The fall of the Soviet Union? The Gulf War? Do high school history teachers still run out of time and gloss over the events of YOUR lifetime? (comments from other countries are more than welcome.)
Let's face it, high school history textbooks suck.
And why didn't educators learn from "School House Rock"? I'll bet if you sing the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, most of us remember the entire thing. See, TV(visual media)is not entirely a vast wasteland.
Here's hoping we don't repeat past mistakes... if only we could remember what those mistakes were.
Chinquapin
(the password is...ginkgo biloba)
Look for movie night to start up at The Nut House.
Posted by chinquapin2
at 10:04 PM PDT
