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

["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

If you will all please direct your eyes and attention to the pen I'm
holding here in my hand, I will explain everything for you...<FLASH>

...Wow, you folks certainly were lucky.  Hasn't anyone ever warned you
about discharging a firearm near a natural gas line?  

-

I guess 500 channels of American Gladiators, Reality TV and Soaps are
just as good as a memory erasing pen...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bill Geschwind
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: thomas AT tbeckett.com; 'Internetworkers:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'
> Subject: RE: [internetworkers] PART 2: history lesson
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
> Beckett
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:23 PM
> To: machett AT ibiblio.org; Internetworkers:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> 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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