D.Day

Marine Iguana said:
I don't care for history getting any history rammed down your neck gets boring after a while.
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I don't even care if you're a troll, that comment made me feel physically sick. I don't see how you can even be so obtuse to make a remark like that, Millions of men on D day laid down their own lives to help keep us free from an oppressive and fascist scheme. I wouldn't have been able to take a foot off the landing craft, facing almost certain death as MG-44 (the fastest firing gun at the time) rained all hell against men going a-shore.
 
Well whatever youngsters do or don't know the majority will probably know Hitler was a meanie, which is something I guess, even though they may not know exactly what he got up to.
 
I think it's incredibly ignorant to ignore the event and the sacrifices that were made. I don't care if you think it's boring, ** no need for that ** Get some perspective.
 
Marine Iguana said:
I don't care for history getting any history rammed down your neck gets boring after a while.
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You don't need to know every intricate detail about every war but you should at least be educated to have decent general knowledge about the world wars and why certain dates are celebrated/mourned
 
Marine Iguana said:
I am not taking away what they did but I don't care for history it bores the **** out of me the past is the past let it go.
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How can you let the past go?

Our history is what defines us, without learning from the actions of those now passed you would have no progression.


I'm not all that shocked, most women I've met have little interest in history (particularly wars, that always appeals to boys more).

Doesn't mean its right though. Btw make sure you watch the D Day 2 parter on channel 4, its got some really interesting footage and audio clips.
 
I didn't do GCSE History, and the only way I know about D-Day is due to hearing about it in the news and people talking about it.
The only History I was taught is middle ages and Roman and I remember very little of that.

So I can kind of understand how someone that age doesn't know about it.
 
Hmm, It's not that I don't care I am just not interested in history, Not any of it, I know about the war, I know what happened to millions of people that's what I know I don't need reminding of it all the time.
 
Marine Iguana said:
Hmm, It's not that I don't care I am just not interested in history, Not any of it, I know about the war, I know what happened to millions of people that's what I know I don't need reminding of it all the time.
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ban tbh

No one cares that you don't care. Many people really appreciate the lengths people went to, to defend this country. I get goosebumps just thinking about what the servicemen were getting ready for right now, all those years ago.
 
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also, lets not forget some people are just down right stupid.

i remember a girl on my art foundation course who didnt know where wales was. this course took place just outside of bath. wales was closer to her than london
 
A few dates for you to think of.

Fall of the berlin wall?

Terrorist plane attack on world trade centre?

The trinity test site detonation?

Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Moon landing?

The day world war 1 ended?



Answers in the spoiler but before you look how many did you know off the top of your head? not quite the same as never hearing of them but fun all the same.


Fall of the berlin wall? 9 November 1989

Terrorist plane attack on world trade centre? 11 September 2001

The trinity test site detonation? 16 July 1945

bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 6 August 1945, 9 August 1945

Moon landing? 20 July 1969

The day world war 1 ended? 11 November 1918
 
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Dis86 said:
It's the anniversary of D-Day tomorrow. Happened to be talking to a friend of mine and brought it up in conversation. She looked at me blankly.

How can someone get to the age of 26 in this country and not know what D-Day is?!

The sacrifices that the allied soldiers, sailors, airmen and even civilians made less than 70 years ago and people don't even know what it was. Fml!
I for one am grateful, not because my family or even this country would have been oppressed by Nazi Germany but for the freedom that was restored to Europe and the world as a whole however I just can't understand how people can't know about it.

*sigh*
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It's probably the same as it is now regarding teaching in schools as it was when I started secondary 20 years ago. Y7-9 is basically everything upto and including the Victorian era. Ie mostly nonsense covered in great depth. It isn't till Y10/11 that kids are taught ANYTHING about 20th century events and it's mostly brief because then they have to begin reiterating all the nonsense in preparation for the exams and that's only if they've chosen history as one of the optional GCSEs.

I think that most kids in their early-mid 20s these days probably don't have much of a vested interest as their grandparents will have either been babies or born after the end of the war so there are no 'war stories' regurgitated to the grandkids when they were young.

bru said:
A few dates for you to think of.

Fall of the berlin wall?

Terrorist plane attack on world trade centre?

The trinity test site detonation?

Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Moon landing?

The day world war 1 ended?
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I know the years of them all. I obviously knew the WTC one, that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in August and 3 days apart and that WW1 ended on the date it did.
 
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RubixThing said:
I don't even care if you're a troll, that comment made me feel physically sick. I don't see how you can even be so obtuse to make a remark like that, Millions of men on D day laid down their own lives to help keep us free from an oppressive and fascist scheme. I wouldn't have been able to take a foot off the landing craft, facing almost certain death as MG-44 (the fastest firing gun at the time) rained all hell against men going a-shore.
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Perhaps you need to relearn your history too if you think millions died on D Day.
 
Well for those of us that do know some history a moment to think that right now all those years ago a lot of men on both sides were right now were in a real **** storm.

Horrible times, very brave soldiers fighting and dying for a very real, by today's standards, cause.
 
Just be thankful we wern't born 100 years earlier. As most of us would probably be dead in the coming 5 years.. ( 1914-18)

I couldn't imagine the hell those guys went through on D Day, on both sides. Luckly i've ever had to serve my country but im thankful to those who have.

I flew into dallas from london in 2004 and a plane load of soldiers had arrived back from Iraq/afgan. The entire airport stopped what they were doing and clapped as they went through the terminal. made me wish we did the same things in the UK.
 
Dis86 said:
I'll explain again Dimple, it's one of the defining moments of European history. That is why people should know about it.
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You don't have to explain to me, I stood on those fields in 1980.
There are 1000s of defining moments in our history and I probably don't know 90% of them.
I agree that when teaching World War history that teachers should explain which other countries fought with us and why we owe them a debt (but how long should that debt last is another question).

I'd also like to add that when I was at school (69 to 74) absolutely nothing was taught about WW2 and we had one of Reginald Mitchells Spitfire prop blades in the main foyer.
 
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