I graduated high school in 1998. I can understand about the Weathermen and
SDS (I didn't learn about them until graduate school, and only because I
took a History course in the Sixties), but what kind of rock does one have
to be under to have missed the Kent State shootings?
Of course, when grading undergraduate history papers, graduate students that
the University of Memphis added the most embarrassing mistakes to what they
called "the wall of shame," which included essay statements like "Columbus
invented trade," and "Camp David was a concentration camp where Hitler sent
the Jews." History seems a lost art anymore.
A. Shope
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> I remember my shock at talking with a co-worker, a 1989 high school
>grad. He was in the gifted program at his HS and attended several years of
>college. He had never heard of the Weathermen, SDS, or the shootings at
>Kent State.
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> It is hard for me to understand how something that was so
>earth-shattering when I was in high school (I know, that dates me pretty
>well) has completely disappeared from the consciousness of people less than
>20 years younger. No wonder we keep repeating history rather than learning
>from it!
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> Robin Tew
> . . . enjoying another beautiful day in sunny Florida!!
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>Our University is proud that on March 31st that we are hosting Lech
>Walesa, Polish Solidarity leader,
>to speak on campus. Our provost was granting an interview to our
>student newspaper about this
>and as she waxed on and on about Lech, his contributions and place in
>20th Century history, it began
>to dawn on her that the reporter had never heard of this person,
>Solidarity, the Polish unions, and its
>effect in the breakup of Soviet domination. And of course, I had a
>graduate student last year, that
>when I asked her to check through our sheet music for marches by Sousa,
>she'd never heard of him.
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>Ah well, back when I rode pterodactyls to school .
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