tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post1896632205751552991..comments2024-01-03T05:18:54.650-05:00Comments on CDR Salamander: Fullbore FridayCDR Salamanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05981221786954902349noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-75432489441936261722010-03-28T09:36:08.000-04:002010-03-28T09:36:08.000-04:00Next thing you know they will be teaching the Hist...Next thing you know they will be teaching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68&feature=related" rel="nofollow">History of the Norman Conquest</a>...UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-74235727456230941872010-03-27T17:01:05.000-04:002010-03-27T17:01:05.000-04:00Me? WWII 8th AF B-17 pilot - and Vietnam infantry...Me? WWII 8th AF B-17 pilot - and Vietnam infantry Company Commander.cdrsalamandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-82157981576864161712010-03-27T13:34:48.000-04:002010-03-27T13:34:48.000-04:00Well, here it was less forced, there was usual nod...Well, here it was less forced, there was usual nod to the powers that be, imagine that in a foreign books shelf of my city library I've found no less than Edward Luttwak's "Grand strategy of the Soviet Union". Was major eye-opener for me as I saw first time the real gargantuan size of Soviet military.ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-20208420235780549082010-03-26T23:57:18.000-04:002010-03-26T23:57:18.000-04:00Yeah, the folks at Langley probably filled that hi...Yeah, the folks at Langley probably filled that high school...DeltaBravonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-5259711813370386122010-03-26T21:06:37.000-04:002010-03-26T21:06:37.000-04:00Thank you (blushes). Actually, I was specifically...Thank you (blushes). Actually, I was specifically thinking of a certain intelligence agency in the vicinity but you are correct about the overall demographic makeup of the area.Grumpy Old Hamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-35541476154746777572010-03-26T19:32:38.000-04:002010-03-26T19:32:38.000-04:00Because of our frequent move in conjunction with P...Because of our frequent move in conjunction with PCS orders, our eldest daughter studied American history in California, Virginia, and Rhode Island. She learned about the "Mission Trail", Jamestown, and Plymouth Rock in addition to getting two extremely different perspectives on the Civil War/War Between the States.<br /><br />Your comment about textbooks is on target, one of the reasons why we always monitored their assignments and made sure our girls understood that there was more to history than just what was in their textbooks. Fortunately, they both grew up to be good, informed citizens although their political views differ from one another.C-dore 14noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-50004215811574123982010-03-26T19:08:30.000-04:002010-03-26T19:08:30.000-04:00Gotta love the great Texas schoolbook imbroglio. ...Gotta love the great Texas schoolbook imbroglio. For decades the far left has controlled what goes into kids textbooks but now they're screaming bloody murder because patriotic Americans have taken over the state school board. <br /><br />Several years ago one of the kids at church showed me his American History book. No disrespect to ML King, but when he gets more space then all the founding fathers combined there's something wrong. When the internment of Japanese Americans rates higher than Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking and the Nazi death camps I begin to see a pattern. When the Iroquois Confederacy is credited with inspiring the US Constitution I think they have gone over a PC cliff. Old NFOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-74878184790478127272010-03-26T18:51:22.000-04:002010-03-26T18:51:22.000-04:00Brad - I am reminded of the joke about how differe...Brad - I am reminded of the joke about how different news outlets would handle nuclear war: The NYT would, of course, look at how women and minorities are hurt most; The WSJ would analyze the effect on commodity prices.Andrewdbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-37667449983186394022010-03-26T18:40:29.000-04:002010-03-26T18:40:29.000-04:00Ewok, The first time I visited Albania in '93 ...Ewok, The first time I visited Albania in '93 we toured their national military academy. During the tour we were given a briefing in a room filled with empty bookcases. It turned out this had been the library and the government had decided to remove the books because all of them, even the technical ones, were loaded with Marxist philosophy and rhetoric.C-dore 14noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-79022360980260249692010-03-26T15:31:58.000-04:002010-03-26T15:31:58.000-04:00maybe it then they picked up the habit of blowing ...maybe it then they picked up the habit of blowing themselves up? ;)ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-11370725056149316672010-03-26T15:30:13.000-04:002010-03-26T15:30:13.000-04:00In my old bad communist high school days we went f...In my old bad communist high school days we went for Ancient (until 476) -Medieval-(until 1492)- Early Modern (until 1795 - 3rd Partition of Poland, but that would be the time of both US Independence War and French Revolution)- Industrial Modern (until 1945). Everything after 1945 was considered political sciences. Of course books were anointed with Marxist rhetoric, but otherwise quite sound knowledge was passed, and everybody knew who really has been doing the shootings in Katyn - it was just silently acknowledged nobody would mention it to not rise troubles for our teacher. Nobody actually tried to force "interpretation" of the history, teachers were too busy forcing the knowledge of what actually happened - and when - into our teenage heads.ewok40knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-22512523003176942832010-03-26T15:22:27.000-04:002010-03-26T15:22:27.000-04:00I definitely wasn't taught this way; I graduat...I definitely wasn't taught this way; I graduated high-school in 1993. :-D <br /><br />From what I remember of my school days, we haphazardly covered our community, Mummies, our state, Abraham Lincoln, the Pilgrims, Martin Luther King, Jr., and.... oh, yeah. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. (That last one, seriously, is the only fact I remember being taught in 10th grade high school history! LOL!)<br /><br />It certainly makes sense, though. I wish I had been taught this way.Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-35626598053676278052010-03-26T15:11:19.000-04:002010-03-26T15:11:19.000-04:00Thanks. Off to Google it...Thanks. Off to Google it...Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-54050044377003137312010-03-26T15:01:48.000-04:002010-03-26T15:01:48.000-04:00DS, It's not as bad as the editorial cartoon t...DS, It's not as bad as the editorial cartoon that one of the Seattle papers ran a few years back (on Memorial Day no less) that showed the flag raisers pushing up an oil derrick. You'll be glad to hear that the paper has since gone out of business as anything but a website.C-dore 14noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-9685262402563890282010-03-26T14:13:27.000-04:002010-03-26T14:13:27.000-04:00It's unfortunate that these kids don't hav...It's unfortunate that these kids don't have the opportunity to be exposed to the high school faculty that taught me. The history teacher who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, the geometry and English teachers who flew B-17s over Germany, the ROTC MSgt who received a Silver Star and CIB as a sniper in the Philippines, the Korean War veterans. They came away from their wartime experiences with viewpoints that ranged from nationalistic to anti-war and we as students were exposed to both points of view. Of course that was a different era but it was one in which a variety of perspectives on the role of this country in world were presented to us so that we could develop our own political outlook as we matured. It's not the fact that there's a moron like this guy influencing his students that bothers me as much as the lack of a countervailing opinion.C-dore 14noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-73142796165975846982010-03-26T13:58:31.000-04:002010-03-26T13:58:31.000-04:00Heather, the progression of your course work is si...Heather, the progression of your course work is similar to that I encountered during high school. Of course that was about 45 years ago.C-dore 14noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-1727009369311046912010-03-26T13:54:14.000-04:002010-03-26T13:54:14.000-04:00surf, Agree it's not as good as "Band of ...surf, Agree it's not as good as "Band of Brothers" and seems pretty tame so far. However, it has been fairly faithful to the Sledge and Leckie books on which the screenplay was based. I'll get back to you after the Peleliu episodes regarding whether it's too romanticized or not.C-dore 14noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-77851965664646778862010-03-26T13:40:19.000-04:002010-03-26T13:40:19.000-04:00Nice Trading Places reference. Nice Trading Places reference. LT Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-21991421093383232242010-03-26T12:50:57.000-04:002010-03-26T12:50:57.000-04:00http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travelblogs/38/403/McA...<a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travelblogs/38/403/McArabia:+McDonald%E2%80%99s+in+the+Arab+World?destId=361106" rel="nofollow">http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travelblogs/38/403/McArabia:+McDonald%E2%80%99s+in+the+Arab+World?destId=361106</a><br /><br />For a more intelligent discussion of McDonald's around the world than that teacher seems to be able to do, this blog is interesting. Be sure to read the selections from several places. I wonder if the sneering leftist teacher has ever left the US and travelled to understand what a place like this means overseas to the tourists, homesick Americans and the locals. DeltaBravonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-44564704659804571542010-03-26T12:16:54.000-04:002010-03-26T12:16:54.000-04:00I am home-schooling my youngest. She's a wicke...I am home-schooling my youngest. She's a wicked smart 11 year old anyway, but I can't stomach the way things have been distorted in our schools. Add to that the politicization of the teachers, and the sycophamts in the PTA, and it's too much.AW1 Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-20870395380411850652010-03-26T12:08:15.000-04:002010-03-26T12:08:15.000-04:00From the blurb at ASP, this came after a discussio...From the blurb at ASP, this came after a discussion of how the war impacted attitudes of blacks and women.<br /><br />Really? The student body has a sufficient grasp of the geopolitical causes and shifts caused by the war that they have time to devote to the sociological minutia??XBradTCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-18637677246714447242010-03-26T10:35:06.000-04:002010-03-26T10:35:06.000-04:00<span>Not shocked. </span>
<span>...<span>Not shocked. </span><br /><span> </span><br /><span>Of course, I was a college TA for a year at one of the Virginia colleges. The VA public school system was very good at sending us kids who could barely read. And couldn't write a coherent sentence let alone a paragraph or research paper. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Good job VA public schools.</span>Spadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-85166922145189039992010-03-26T10:21:33.000-04:002010-03-26T10:21:33.000-04:00Ok, color me clueless, but which part of that page...Ok, color me clueless, but which part of that page did this show up in?Byronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-60568375392083853992010-03-26T09:55:14.000-04:002010-03-26T09:55:14.000-04:00Gotta kill 'em where they find 'em Delta. ...Gotta kill 'em where they find 'em Delta. They thought that by going back in time, and hiding amongst the Imperial Japanese Army, that they would outfox us.SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-18698329649345982192010-03-26T09:52:45.000-04:002010-03-26T09:52:45.000-04:00We were fighting al-Qaeda on Mt. Suribachi? I'...We were fighting al-Qaeda on Mt. Suribachi? I'm confused. ;)DeltaBravonoreply@blogger.com