I guess some Millenial is out of work now. Poor guy. They had a Canadian program that went around and asked Americans to sign petitions for absurd causes. They even went to Harvard College and asked a Professor if he would sign petition to prevent the Eskimos from sending their elderly out to die on floating icebergs. He signed it of course.

Another college student signed a petition to prevent the Canadians from shutting down the air conditioning for the National Igloo.

I have to laugh to avoid getting upset.

Someone forgot to tell the doughboys they were a bit early too!

https://mobile.twitter.com/HIS...s/881181858129694720

Good grief

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Originally posted by toms:
Someone forgot to tell the doughboys they were a bit early too!

https://mobile.twitter.com/HIS...s/881181858129694720

To arfmel's point on page 1:

Go home history channel you're drunk.. I guess since all they show is reality shows they forgot about actual history.

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
Good grief

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Originally posted by toms:
Someone forgot to tell the doughboys they were a bit early too!

https://mobile.twitter.com/HIS...s/881181858129694720

Roughriders?

At the Battle of Waterloo?

In 1066?

With Gen Patton i/c?

I might be wrong, but hey, no wronger than the History channel, eh?

tac

See what happens when you spend a decade slinging shows like pawn stars and ancient aliens? You forget actual history.

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Originally posted by ryan81986:
See what happens when you spend a decade slinging shows like pawn stars and ancient aliens? You forget actual history.

Dont forget ww2 only.

There are elected officials in Congress right now that believe tweeting constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors." And that Guam might tip over. And that astronauts planted a flag on Mars. Nothing surprises me anymore. My peers in the 5th grade knew more history and civics than most of the morons running loose today.

Seems it has happened before:

"In 2012, a writer complained on the Daily Kos that during a documentary about the Dark Ages in 8th Century England, the show superimposed images from 100 BC Pompeii and 333 BC Southern Turkey.

The writer said when he complained, The History Channel replied that as long as an image created the desired 'atmosphere,' then it didn't matter if it was historically consistent." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ashington-image.html

Upon further examination, yes, the image created the desired atmosphere. George Washington would have been proud of that video taken at Gettysburg.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:....
Roughriders?

At the Battle of Waterloo?

In 1066?

With Gen Patton i/c?

I might be wrong, but hey, no wronger than the History channel, eh?

tac

Isn't that the battle where they introduced the Trojan Horse? (I would bet the bulk of high school grads around here wouldn't have a clue).

We would've been screwed on D-Day without the 32nd X-Wing squadron.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I love my country, truly and deeply, and I know many in this forum feel the same way. I cannot imagine- cannot imagine- being so ignorant of its history, as the vast majority of its citizens today seem to be.

My Mom was a history and geography teacher. She went to law school for a while and did well, but decided she didn't want to end up being a shyster. So, pretty smart cookie. Naturally I had a lot of the history learnins rub off on me.

Today's Americans, in general, are shamefully ignorant of it. Even when I was in school (that's a long time ago) it wasn't a subject most kids were focused on in the least. And so here we are, with things like the OP's post happening.

To me, some things are still important even if they don't lead to a high paying career or end up making you famous. But what do I know?

George Washington was a surveyor from his teens, and may have visited the Gettysburg area at some point in his life.

It was interesting to walk the streets and lanes of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, past plots the future General Washington personally surveyed (and sold, I believe).

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Originally posted by Leemur:
We would've been screwed on D-Day without the 32nd X-Wing squadron.

Dude, really......

Everyone knows X-wings were only used in the Pacific theater.

The ignorance of history disturbs me, but hardly astonishes me. When people mock the knowledge of things like trigonometry and algebra—subjects that I personally use in everyday life >50 years after I studied them—how do they argue that history is any more important?

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Originally posted by egregore:

It would be such a huge "fuck you" to whatever nation we bombed if we used bombers and fighters from World War 2 and were successful in doing so.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
It would be such a huge "fuck you" to whatever nation we bombed if we used bombers and fighters from World War 2 and were successful in doing so.

Funnily enough, the US military brought a small number of older US military prop planes, like the Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco, back into operational status and used them successfully against ISIS ground targets in Iraq/Syria.

And over the past couple decades the US has been researching and testing new models of prop-driven ground attack aircraft, like the A-29 Super Tocano and the A-67 Dragon, to be adopted for use in counterinsurgency operations where the air-to-air and surface-to-air threats are negligible.

Prop aircraft are capable of cheaper operations, longer loiter time over the battlefield, and longer/slower attack runs than modern jet aircraft, and can operate from more remote airbases.