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OT Remembrance Monday Bank Holiday petition
Sacha wrote:
I suppose, to be fair, that teachers have to follow a curriculum. Are they allowed - or were they - to go off onto their own chosen path of interest? Up until about 1988 it was easier for teachers to divert or involve other facets, however, even then, it took strength of character to speak of the heroism of those who fought and lived through the war for there was that other powerful stricture about: peer-pressure amongst teachers and from the sixties onwards it has been fashionable, hasn't it, to avoid any acclamation of war efforts. If you don't learn from history, you learn nothing and IMO, every single child in every single country in the world should be taken to see the sites of war graves or e.g. Auschwitz so that they learn what man can do to man if *they* don't put a stop to it in each successive generation. Absolutely, Sacha. Eddy mentions the Channel Islands where my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, were living under Nazi rule. They - and we - are lucky that rule didn't prevail because from them I learned enough about how bad it was while it lasted. Fascinating. My grandparents and uncle endured two years in the Channel Islands under the Nazis, losing their farm and spending those two years cooped in a rented room in town. They watched as the Germans closed down the businesses of Jewish residents and rounded them up. And then in 1942 Hitler ordered my grandparents and uncle, and all other English-born residents, to be imprisoned in southern Germany. The toll that those three years of "internment" took on my grandparents destroyed them mentally. (And by the way, no compensation has ever been paid to those particular prisoners, as it has to Japanese POWs for example, and, also, there has never been any enquiry into the degree to which Channel Island authorities collaborated with the Nazis for the five years of the occupation. I believe that to this day certain papers have never been declassified.) In our Parish magazine there was a short piece about young people in the sea cadets collecting money during the Poppy Appeal in Totnes. Some equally young drop out type came up to one young girl and told her she was supporting 'murdering scum'. I do so wish I'd been there. I wonder if he realises what would have happened to him if he'd said that to someone collecting money for the Nazi party, from which fate he was saved by what his ignorance describes as 'murdering scum'. I think this one example you give, Sacha, states the situation perfectly. That "young drop-out type" and thousands of other non-drop-out types too would continue in the same attitude while lapping up an extra public holiday. Eddy. |
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