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"A new study of college students suggests that the true meaning of Memorial Day, a tradition dating back to the Civil War, is becoming even more obscure.
A survey of 14,000 randomly selected seniors and freshmen on 50 campuses shows they lack knowledge about the politics, causes and history of the wars that shaped America and killed the soldiers that the country set today aside to honor.
The data, analyzed by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, shows that college seniors averaged 52.7 percent on a series of questions about war history and related themes. College freshmen averaged less, 47.5 percent."
Starting shortly, I will spend the better part of my day today doing the same thing Larry Tyson is doing today in Kansas.
For some of us, duty still calls, regardless of the political and social forces that work against the remembrance and for the marginalization of those who gave all.
“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.” —Woodrow Wilson
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately too many in supposed leadership positions or wannabe leaders have forgotten this.