It may have escaped Carol Gould’s attention, but we tend to commemorate peace – or the steps towards peace, such as the D-Day landings – rather than the acts of aggression and the outbreaks of war.

It may also have escaped her notice that here in the UK commemorations are centred around Remembrance Sunday – which although originally started to remember the WWI armistice, now remembers all wars. Remembrance Sunday is always held on the second Sunday of November .. that day when I suppose she is locked away in her little cupboard, too busy fuming about wholly imaginary acts of anti-Americanism, to notice that most of the country turns out at parades and memorials around the country to remember the glorious dead of all wars.

Far from remembering less, we actually remember more than ever – witness the fact that the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month is now marked to the point where the country comes to a complete standstill for two minutes of complete silence.

The fact that Carol Gould would actually want to commemorate hostility, rather than peace and those who died, speaks volumes of vile aggressive nature.

Generosity? That’s a laugh. The US, when it finally got in on the act, lent us the money, and we paid it back, and plenty more. Moreover, their belated war effort boosted their economy big time. America entered the war for its own interests entirely, purely coincidentally in ours, and not a moment before its own interests – economic as well as military – were served.

First off, WWW2 is compulsory – get that – compulsory as part of the National Curriculum in schools. So if they learn nothing else, they learn that.

Secondly, why celebrate or commemorate the outbreak of the war? It makes no sense. On the other hand, and more logically, when it was the fiftieth anniversary of VE day – you know, when we won it – TV was wall-to-wall war, so much so that pundits joked that it would all be over by Christmas.

Every single one of these statements is completely untrue, though widely believed by ignorant Americans.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/929977/BBC-marks-70th-anniversary-WWII-free-online-archive/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mpqql
http://www.inpublishing.co.uk/news/articles/bbc_history_launches_wwii_bookazine.aspx

cher Alceste, as I told you, we don’t fest the wars breakings, but the ends of the war, otherwise we should give Hitler a street name too for the great event !

mournings don’t help to reconstruct

it’s because you never were invaded by foreigners that you’re festing the day you enter into a war, but the British and us, have fst 2000 years of the kind of stories, so that would mean that we should fest each day in a year for having entered into a war !

notice that we don’t fest the defeats too !

But one can notice how well intentionnned you are though !

Sorry, the generation that has to tell you thank you is passing away, don’t expect that the new generations will still congratulate your generosity, if they can read that you were/are bashing/anathemising them.

Yeah, I reckon that’s part of the reason Carol’s article only recieved 18 responses.

And if you watch as much cable TV history as I do, WWII is never off the air. One blog I read refers to a cable history station as “The Hitler Channel” because that’s about the only subject they cover.

Commemorations are for reminding folks lest they forget, not adding yet another rerun of a documentary or another speech opportunity by a politician. We haven’t forgotten WWII, we’re saturated with it.

I know history as it is taught in many schools would put one off but history is important. All the “social science” crap could be cut out and real history taught then people might understand.

History teaches how people react and why. People today are no smarter then they were 70 years ago, indeed no smarter than they were 2,000 years ago. We can learn from their mistakes and from their successes.

If one doesn’t know what was done in the past and why then we have no idea what will be done next year or 20 years from now. That is why so many inane policies have been enacted over the years. People relearning what our ancestors discovered over the centuries and eons with the concomitant cost in treasure and misery and lives.