Re: [DL] Civil War Banned from Knox County Schools

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Japan is notorious for ignoring unpleasant bits of the past.  I remember a
news report to the effect that at least one Japanese movie goer hadn't known
that the United States went to war with Japan because of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor and only found this out from the recent movie.
          Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Dan Sulin <grandmasternilus@hotmail.com>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : January 8, 2003 10:29 AM
Objet : Re: [DL] Civil War Banned from Knox County Schools


>>Not sure if this is the Japanese in a
>>state of denial or Disney just trying to coddle up to their
>>customers...probably a combination of both.
>>
>Actually I watched a special about how different contries view World War 2.
>Japan pretty much is in denial.  They would be happy if the whole world
>forgot about it.  Some other funny tidbits
>
>More then half of French families claim they had a grand parent that was a
>freedom fighter.  Of course someone crunched the numbers and realized if
>that was true,  they probably would have drove the Germans out way before
>the allies landed.
>
>The Most accurate accounts of the War are taught in Germany.  They don't
>deny anything or skim over evil that anyone committed.  Almost the complete
>opposite of what the Japanese teach.
>
>Dan
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