Do you think today's children should be educated more at school about world war 1 and 2.
Not just the war but the consequences of it.

In the Uk we study in depth the causes of both wars and the consequences of both, and also the horros of trench Wafare in the first world war. Do they not teach that in the US?

I think a small dose of factual information about the war would probably trump the tons of propaganda that pass themselves off as history. That goes for 99% of all the information in history texts anyway.

For instance, if the USA is depicted as some reluctant hero in your text...you might want to look into war profiteering and the influence that had on our reluctance to enter World War 2.

I wouldn't mind kids getting genuine exposure to the horrors of war, either. Most teens are rather desensitized to violence and the idea of war doesn't stir anything inside them - pride or remorse.

Maybe that's because the United States is CONSTANTLY at war.

Indeed.Some of them are going to head the Military departments of various countries in future and would be in a position where they need to take critical decisions on whether to avoid war or go along with it.A peep of the past would allow then to handle their future well.The War and It's consequences were dreaded and even nuclear weapons were used on Japan in World War II and we know how it's effect lasted decades after the war resulting in genetic modification of people who were born after the disaster.
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Some of those who fought on some other land and even many didn't return either alive or dead and kept people back home waiting for ever.Some of them who had nothing to do with war, end up loosing life as civilian areas were sometimes worst hit.
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A study of World wars is a must for the future benifits.