[ARC5] !00% In Agreement

[Bruce Long via ARC5]

Recall my dad marveling one day over an article he was reading in the paper reporting that in street interviews in New York city people were encountered who didn’t know we were in a war and others who knew about the war but didn’t know who we were fighting!
I never heard that before but i am cynical enough to believe it.   Thank you for bringing it to my attention  bruce

      From: Dennis DuVall <duvallddennis at gmail.com>
 To: Bruce Long <coolbrucelong at yahoo.com> 
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I was in grade school during WW2 and I remember it clearly —rationing, shortages, everyone had a dad, uncle, older brother, etc. in the “service,” activities and services cancelled “for the duration."….  Recall my dad marveling one day over an article he was reading in the paper reporting that in street interviews in New York city people were encountered who didn’t know we were in a war and others who knew about the war but didn’t know who we were fighting!

Go figure.

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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> On Dec 11, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Bruce Long via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello All:Years ago when i was single I was a very active SCUBA diver.  Living in Pennsylvania a typical summer of fall weekend was spent wreck diving off the Delaware, Maryland or northern Virgina coasts with annual trips to the North Carolina outer banks.  A large number of the divable wrecks- divable meaning wrecks in water shallow enough for sport divers are WW2 german U boat victims as coastal ship traffic was driven close to shore during the worst of the U boat predication. 
> 
> In general social interaction i was often asked "how was your weekend?" or "What did you do for your weekend"Often my answer was "I dove a ship wreck, a ship sunk in WW2 by a German U boat"
> I was surprised how often this generated a quizzical response "which war was that?" or even fairly often a hostile response " No you must be wrong, the Germans never directly threatened the US mainline"  Some thought the shipwrecks must be somehow connected to Vietnam.
> 
> It was very educational for me to understand just how little WW2 - perhaps the most important geopolitical even in the last hundred years ( OK WW1 might be the most important event as it set up WW2) matters in the general public culture and daily discourse.
> 
> 
> 
>      From: DSP3 <jeepp at comcast.net>
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] !00% In Agreement
> 
> Dennis,
> 
> Although I would assume better, it may well be just like the new 
> Europeans.  They simply have no knowledge of what went on, back then, as 
> their educational systems ignore certain history.
> 
> Jeep - K3HVG
> 
> 
> On 12/11/2014 1:42 AM, Dennis DuVall wrote:
>> Quizzical -- not angry, hostile or offended…..
>> 
>> Might have been enlightening to have talked with them to discover just what they were thinking.
>> 
>> Dennis D.  W7QHO
>> Glendale, CA
>> 
>>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Joel R Roberts <joelroberts001 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 7 Dec 2014 at 22:12, Mike Everette via ARC5 wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Some time back, while visiting the USS North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, I saw a
>>>>> group of Japanese tourists on board who were staring at the ship's battle honors
>>>>> posted on the port wing of the bridge.  The Japanese had very quizzical
>>>>> expressions on their faces. I wonder how much longer, in this "politically
>>>>> correct" world, the display of these battle honors will be allowed.  "We don't
>>>>> want to offend anyone...." Here I risk annihilation
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