The war on military history
Have no fear - single handedly (well ok, with help from my ex and hubby) I am processing out 4 young and dedicated Americans who know and appreciate the Constitution and more importantly the History of America well and a lot of the World, (I do admit I tend to go numb when I hear . . .General Hozzimet lead the Crinies at Abadaba NOT Zimbedooda). . .but I do get the point that they know their stuff. One is still Active Duty (working on his masters) one is marrying the Marines (again), one will run for the WH in 2024 (she is determined to do it)and the other is just a storehouse for cultural and historical knowledge. Two of them (the girls) would like to teach at some point.
I said it on the Women and Guns post - when did protecting culture, country, family and self become so wrong, evil and vile?
I’m beginning to think of Joseph McCarthy as a visionary who was light years ahead of his times and that the Communist plot to take over America was not as a frontal war like assualt but rather a slow, steady inside ‘job’. Sad to say, they have done significant damage.
What’s the phrase that Heston used - which applies to culture, country, family, self and guns - OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS!
I try to teach some Military History in my U.S. History and World Geography classes ( and up until this year—in my World history classes).
It’s appalling how little my students know. Just simple things, like Jackson at new Orleans, or Lee and Meade at Gettysburg, who the Allies were during WWI, who the Axis nations were during WWII.
I knew these things in elementary school. They don’t know about the 48-star flag or why the “Star-Spangled Banner” had 15 stripes, much less about Ft. McHenry. I use recent movies like “Gettysburg”, “Roughriders”, “Flyboys”, “We Were Soldiers” and give a running commentary on unit organization, use of combined arms tactics, weapons employment, and technical developments. I used Kapra’s “why we Fight” series and juxtapositioned episodes from “Band of Brothers” to compare Hollywood treatment of war in 1941 with their view in 2006.
Just received “Letters from Iwo Jima” and am developing a lesson plan for it.
We all must fill the gaps as best we can to counter the DemcongLibs who dominate our educational system..
Posted by MAJ Mike
05/25/2007 at 10:16 AM
15 strips????
15 stripes??
Yes. 15 stars and 15 stripes to reflect the number of states in the Union from 1795 to 1818. It was the last U.S. flag to add a stripe everytime a new state entered the Union. The design was switched to maintaining only 13 stripes and adding a star to the blue field as new states entered the Union.
My point is proven.
Posted by MAJ Mike
05/26/2007 at 10:47 AM
