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(US) I think every year in public school for me included a WWII/Holocaust remembrance period. I think across both literature/English and history classes.

Seems like public education doesn’t do that anymore. And society is much worse off.



I’m in northern Italy. Traces of those wars are literally everywhere. One of the largest war memorials is near here [0]

Learning history is important. And it’s educational. And if to learn it you have to see something gruesome, so be it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redipuglia_War_Memorial


And of course we must avoid presentism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_histo...

History is many things including terrible and gruesome. But ignorance of history is no answer.




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