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To: michael97123 who wrote (160994)	4/25/2005 3:31:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

<The Japanese government has apologized but the Japanese people have never been made fully aware of the total history or so i have been led to believe. Someone once wrote--cant remember the person or publication that Japanese WW2 history teaching internally, starts and stops with the atom bomb droppings on H and N. > It seems a good idea to not hassle children with what went on 100 or 1000 years ago. There has been a LOT of history and for children to learn it all would require each of them to remember the details of 100 billion lives gone by and not forget any of it. That's how much history there is to learn. Nearly all of that history has got nothing whatsoever of interest to people alive now. It is nearly all extinct details of what went on then. The question is where to cut off the history lessons. My opinion was, when I was 13 and still is, that I couldn't care less what happened with Elizabethan Kings and Queens, nor how many Morioris Maoris ate in the 19th century, nor whether the Kaiser was a nice chappy or a filthy Hun. I had a lot more things to do and learn about than useless old history forced on me by backward-looking old self-important fools who didn't have anything better to get on with in their lives. If somebody else chooses to learn about those things, that's fine with me. They can tell Google and if I want to know one day, I can ask Grandfather Google what happened once upon a time long ago somewhere or other and Google will even be able to show me. For example, I bet I could click on 911 and see my beloved Twin Towers crumbling. There are no doubt newsreel images of war in Gallipoli. I've got my father's WWII diary and haven't read it all. I've got 1000s of 35mm slides he took of China back in the 70s and from around the world. I did see them all once, at the time. In some instances twice. They've sat in the drawers for 20 years now, unviewed. Do you want to see them all? It's all history at the time. Americans don't know the names of all the people killed at My Lai by a bunch of Americans as bad as the Japanese in Nanking. Has King George II apologized to Vietnam for the heinous crimes against humanity? There's altogether too much history for everyone to go on apologizing to everyone else for things they didn't do to people who died a century or so ago. Mqurice