The world today is majority-populated by the same stupid, ephemeral humankind that have been around for eons; those for whom only that which they themselves experience is "real" in any lasting sense, and for whom history has no lessons to offer, and so history might easilly think be rewritten by the revisionists and the parasites we must needs tolerate for the liberty of all.
Thank God, but I think the advent of widespread media access and the efforts of a select few people such as Tom Hanks, and David Spielberg (no matter what their other politics or positions) have made this largest human population one of the best informed and mindful in history, OF history itself, particularilly World War Two.
My lady love works in a highschool here in florida, and was cringing last fall at how a group of WW2 veterans would be received when invited speak in history class - bless their hearts, those children can be goofy and seldomn seem to be serious about anything.
She was amazed as each vet was received by the entire class standing up and applauding these heroes as they entered, and then remaining as still and silent as a tomb to hear every word these men spoke of their experiences with Patton's 3rd Army in Europe, and under Spruance at Midway in the Pacific, and others. As she related this to me we both got choked up - both our fathers were combat vets in Europe, both were kids when they fought and were wounded, and both bore scarrs inside and out of their experiences there such as alcoholism, and "delayed stress syndrome" as it would be recognized in another war 20 years later.
I think the kids get it, I think the images are so awefully powerful and terrible that it reaches in beyond the video games generation and hooks in their humanity, that something horrible happened, and that warriors from this nation brought it to an end, by the slimmest grace that God allows.
No one should look upon the holocaust without realizing that what we see now as fact was but the least of Hitler's plans, as horrific as it is; should Germany have carried the day there would have been deathcamps around the world on every continent, as part of the "Thousand Year Reich" to "purify" this planet.
A new "Dark Ages" would have engulfed this world.
Yet, somehow a bunch of kids who grew up under the unimaginably worst depression to ever hit this nation managed to rise to the challenge. No one should ever forget that they fought against a future ever so much darker than the past we now see with such regret and horror:
They saved the world from it.
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