On 2021-02-20 12:22 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 11:52:41 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:

>> When I went to school (finished in 1963) my teachers would not discuss
>> politics. The history curriculum stopped at about 1900. This was because
>> teaching 20th century history involved politics and most of us had
>> grandparents who had been voting adults before WW1.
>
> We talked about WW II and Vietnam in high school in the 1970s.

WWII was like ancient history to us. It had been over for 5 years by the
time we were born. It was hard to escape it because so many of our
fathers had seen action in Europe, some in Hong Kong and Burma. There
were TV series about it and countless movies.