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We don't seem to give the skippers of the "Little Ships" the credit they are due....nor the soldiers for that matter.

The schools should be ashamed of themselves as it(WW1 and WW2) seems to be less important these days.
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Originally Posted by Tpin ->
We don't seem to give the skippers of the "Little Ships" the credit they are due....nor the soldiers for that matter.

The schools should be ashamed of themselves as it(WW1 and WW2) seems to be less important these days.
They are too busy teaching gender neutral and Islamic studies. I never thought we would forget but eventually we will.
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16-07-2017, 12:57 PM
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It could be argued (certainly was when I attended school) that events of the 1940s are 'too soon' to be taught in history. One must wait a century or two before it appears on the history curriculum.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Joe;1194048[B
]It could be argued (certainly was when I attended school) that events of the 1940s are 'too soon' [/B]to be taught in history. One must wait a century or two before it appears on the history curriculum.
You can't teach what hadn't happened

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It was taught when I was at school (70s)
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You can't teach what hadn't happened

Joke.

It was taught when I was at school (70s)

Generational gap!!!
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Surely you can't leave out the wars and Dunkirk?
Whether it's called history or whatever it explains to kids how the current political set up in Europe came about.
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Surely you can't leave out the wars and Dunkirk?
Whether it's called history or whatever it explains to kids how the current political set up in Europe came about.

Not when I was at school. Nothing later than 17th Century!!!
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My late Uncle Ron was captured at Dunkirk but did get back home after it was all over. The RAF got some stick for not being around-but they were. So many stukas and dorniers etc might have been around to bomb the beaches had it not been for the unseen battles.
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17-07-2017, 04:41 PM
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I used to work with a man, (Paddy Prendergast) who, was in the rear guard at Dunkirk. He was captured and taken to a prison camp in Germany and then, some months later sent to work in coal mines in Silesia. He escaped and instead of trying to get back to the uk through Germany, he turned east and went through the front lines and met up with the Russians. He fought with the Russians and was at the battle of Kursk.
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17-07-2017, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Tpin ->
You can't teach what hadn't happened

Joke.

It was taught when I was at school (70s)
Me too. we were taught about both World wars, tbh, it was the only part of history I found interesting, I suppose because I could relate to it through my Grandparents.
 
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