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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
Sorry to laugh but that movie came up today and someone said (regarding D-Day) "oh that's coming up tomorrow!" Uh, no. Wrong anniversary.
On a somewhat related note, I was talking to one of my fellow kenpo students about it (the movie) a couple weeks back and he told me about some guy he used to work with. He and my friend had both recently seen the movie and were talking about it, and the other guy asked if it was a true story. My friend started to say, well, there was a thing with one family where the brothers were all killed, but it was a different situation, and the Private Ryan in the movie was a fictional character and his story was made up for the movie, etc. The other guy interrupted him and said, no, I mean that whole thing with the beaches and Normandy and the war in France and all that...
This guy was an adult with at least a high school edumacation and HE DID NOT KNOW THAT WORLD WAR II WAS A REAL THING.
So altho some of us don't need reminding, there are some people who need a whole lot more than that.  |
lol. my professor of international relations related an anecdote that during a discussion on the politics related to ww2, an american student had a sudden epiphany and asked "Since there was a world war 2, does this mean there was also a world war one?"
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