Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

Along similar notes, what will the next generation remember of the armed
conflicts the US was involved in during the last 20 years? I have a few
undergrads working for me, who were born in the early 1980s. I asked one
of them a few months ago what he knows about a bunch of events such as
the US military actions against Grenada, Libya and Panama in the 1980s,
as well as other random world events such as the murder of the Israeli
team at the 1972 Olympics, the chemical plant blowing up in Bhopal,
India, the Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, and the first Space Shuttle blowing
up. He had sort of heard of Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez and the Space
Shuttle, but drew a complete blank on the rest of these events.

- Bill


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Subject: Re: [internetworkers] PART 2: history lesson

Alan MacHett wrote:
> ...so which is it?  Is this common knowledge and I'm an idiot because
I
> fell asleep that day in class?  Or is this yet another instance of
> "selective history"?

Probably more of the latter, although less insidiously than you might 
conclude.  I mean, the little Dominican adventure pales in comparison to

Vietnam.  Which episode are the historians going to hash through for 
decades to come, and which will be a footnote?  Good for you for knowing

about it at all.  99% of the American populace will likely remain 
ignorant of that minor war.

TaB

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