Thank God some of the new generation will know some history! I've got two
grandsons that understand that, but, alas, two grand daughters that haven't
a bloody clue.
--
Cheers!!
Jim
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough
to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So now that it's in the midnight hour of the LBC season in the midwest,
> hobbies have turned a little. I'm demo-ing a new home theater sound setup to
> my 16 yr old son Bobby tonight. We're watching "Iron Man" and the lead
> character snaps at a reporter "my father worked on the Manhattan Project
> building the atomic bomb that defeated the Nazis."
>
> My son starts giggling. I ask what's so funny - his comment was "the Nazis
> surrendered in May 1945, and the bombs were dropped on Japan 3 months later,
> so the bomb wasn't even used on the Nazis."
>
> I read today that elected officials averaged 44% on a US civic knowledge
> test. Not in my house ;-)
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