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THE QUESTION: Besides the Holocaust, what other historical event recent or distant, do you feel is in danger of being forgotten? Why should we never forget this event? Why, to you, is it so important?
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ReplyDeleteAs crazy as it sounds, maybe 9/11 could be in danger of that. I know I only hear about it really on the actual date 9/11. Eventually when my generation and maybe the one after mine dies off, many people won´t hear it that much. I hear about it from my parents and grandparents because they lived through it and the generation after me hears it from us and their grandparents. We have our full lives to live so we will all forget about it and once we all die there won´t be much to say about it other than what the history books say. Hopefully we will not ever forget 9/11 because it was a huge terrorist moment in our country. Countless people died or were affected in a huge way by this event. Even to me it is important but not something I just think about. No one that I know if hugely affected by it.
ReplyDeleteGreat response--I completely agree! 9/11 is already fading fast because the current college generation has no direct experience with it--it's just an anecdote. But if you lived through it, or knew people who worked in NYC (as I did), it's still very real and very raw.
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The American internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War 2. I just find it crazy that America sent US citizens into camps just because they were Japanese and just didn't trust them. Granted, these camps didn't have gas chambers or furnaces for killing people, but it still blows my mind this actually happen here in America. I just find this important because it shows us how powerful our government can do do their own citizens and it could easily happen today as it did eighty years ago.
ReplyDeleteYes, great response...can you believe that happened here? And some are already comparing the ICE Internment Camps to this tragic event. And this wasn't widely discussed until the 1980's, when people started writing books and memoirs about it.
DeleteI think as time passes we will forget the sinking of the Titanic. We shouldn't forget this because it was the unsinkable ship and it sunk. Not only it was the start of the radio age, after the sinking of the Titanic it was mandatory to have wireless telegraphs and eventually radios. This was a helpful step towards array of safety things that was needed on ships. Especially more life boats, more lives could have been saved if more safety measures were in place. An we should also remember the ones who were killed and effected by this tragedy.
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DeleteYes, great response--it shows how a lack of planning and too much confidence can lead to disastrous results. It was a tragedy that didn't need to happen, but people got too careless, and the result was a tremendous loss of life. We can still learn from this disaster.
DeleteOne event we shouldn’t forget is The Great Depression.The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. People lost their jobs and many of them became homeless, some starved to death. Some people during that generation started to hide their money under their beds because they were traumatized that their money would be gone again from the banks. The situation that we are in is kind of mirroring The Great Depression, lots of people are unemployed and they don't know when they are going to be working again.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the horrible things that allied nations did during World War II was forgotten due to the sheer magnitude of the crimes of the Axis powers. Not only did the U.S. have similar concentration camps for Japanese Americans, but during the war India had a major famine under the rule of the United Kingdom, who did not take proper action to stop it in order to weaken the movement for self governance of India, and out of lack of concern for the well being of "lesser races" when Europe was in a time of crisis. We should remember the faults of our past rather than solely romanticizing our role in stopping the Axis.
ReplyDeletethe trail of tears i believe is an important event in history that is being forgotten. though i was born and raised in Oklahoma and i was required to take an Oklahoma history class. if i would not have been required to take that class i would not have learned about what the Unites States put the Native american tribes through. i believe that we shouldnt forget this event because native americans were the first people to live on this land and they for many years and still now were opressed, killed, and taken from their land by the white colonizers.
ReplyDeleteI think we are actually beginning to see a resurgence in knowledge regarding the Protestant Reformation, but for a long time I have been under the impression that many people are unaware of this massive event in the history of Christianity, which is shocking considering we live in the Bible Belt and Reformation theology is what drove Europeans to search for a land where they could be free of tyrannical, religious persecution (a.k.a, the United States).
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