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Originally Posted by geetrue
One thing USA and UK have in common is that they don't lie about history.
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Your statement is true to an extent in the US and UK you can learn the truth in most cases but this does not mean that the typical person via the standard educational means (in other words the "official" truth that is taught as part of normal education) learns every detail of our history positive and negative at face value.From the "official" point of view the rocky bits are viewed from an idealistic point of view.
For example when I was in high school(early 90's) the history book and official course did not really go into much detail about either the Korean War or the Vietnam War.The Korean War was barely mentioned in the book and Vietnam was very vague.
I myself knew alot about Vietnam because my dad was a grunt in that war my class mates got lucky because our teacher Mr.McGovern happened to be a Marine officer and Combat Engineer in Vietnam he did a very good job of explaining things in his matter of fact un-skewed by political leanings way not just about Vietnam but about all history and life in general.I recall one day in class the topic of the Apollo 11 mission being fake came up in class with the usual batch of derps claiming that it was faked McGovern simply said "Well I was in the middle of no where in a foxhole in Vietnam when I heard about the moon landing and I believed it".