"If we never tell kids of WW1 - it won't happen again."

[RedZeroFive]

My Cousins ( and some friends) are just the same way. They think History is stupid and pointless and shouldn't even be taught. I agree with you all, that that is pure Ignorance, if not stupidity.  

[XDcoco puff_100XD]

I have yet another comment about the sheer stupidity that this women has shown. It hurts me deeply to hear about this, because I have very close ties to this time in history. I could just see half the men that sacrificed their lives for their country rolling around in their graves when they hear something like this. I live in Canada, and most of the people here remember every day (mostly in history class) the sacrifices that these men (and the women at home) had to make. I showed one of my friends that is not that into history as I am this story and SHE out of all people burst with anger.

I'm just glad that not everyone thinks like this women does.  

[GeneralFishSama]

Lhuv-Kerapht

Oh, ugh! Nothing disgusts me more than willful ignorance. It's plain stupidity, is all it is, and an "Ooo, it's scary! Hide your heads in the sand, everyone, and maybe the scary will go away!" philosophy. Putrid. Absolutely putrid. Reprehensible. Vile. Irresponsible. Moronic. I hope somebody hands that twit her keister on a silver platter, with extra sauce for dippin'. 'Cause, seriously.... What could she be thinking? IS she actually thinking at all?

Now personally, I think everybody needs to know and understand more, not less, about WWI. And I think at least a part of that should probably be a viewing or several of "All Quiet on the Western Front." Quite simply the most amazing war film ever made, and in my opinion, no film since has captured the hell of war half as starkly at that one. Reading is one thing, but they went for brutal reality when they made that movie. And I don't think any film has held up to the passage of time as well as that one has. Seriously. The story is powerful, the emotion raw, and the effects are jaw-droppingly amazing. And not just for 1930, either. Jaw-droppingly amazing. Run, don't walk. Rent it, buy it, Netflix it - whatever. Watch it. Share it. Discuss it. Never forget it. Trust me. Once you've seen it, you won't be able to. It's a film that so expresses the horrors of war that even to this day, there are countries the world over than have banned this film, because of how powerful and effective the anti-war message is. (Don't worry, folks; it's a "talkie.")

And first in line to get it shown to her needs to be Ms. Ignorance-is-Bliss. That idiot needs the cover ripped off for her.

I saw the 1930 version (we watched the one from the 70s in class because they weren't ALLOWED to show the 1930's one) and I have to say it was probably the most shocking old film I've ever seen in terms of it's graphic honesty. Definitely on my top ten war movies list.  

[Panzerfaust99]

Well, no one in this country care about world war 1, the only people that care about it are the people who read about it. School doesn't teach anything about it, just how it started. Just like ww2, the only thing school talks about is the holocaust and the dropping of the Atomic bomb. All the stuff I know about ww2 Germans is because I read books, talk to German vet.s, ect. "All Quiet on the Western Front" was boring to me, thats why I got interested into WW2 and thats also why I reenact ww2 as a German. WW2 there is alot of war filming and more action, WW1 wasn't as bad as WW2, more tanks, guns, and aircraft.  

[Tsukasa wave]

your teacher is an idiot you don't bury something up because you don't like it and you know what they say "history always repeats itself" and that makes me mad that the textsbooks dont realy teach anything and take out most of the stuff we should know