A 2007 survey of high school seniors conducted by the U.S. Department of Education revealed that 72% of them did not realize that the United States fought Adolf Hitler and Germany in World War II. For further examples of the pathetic lack of knowledge of basic history on the part of an unfortunately large segment of American youth a/k/a future voters, click here. Thankfully, there are still many young folks who are exceptions to this level of ignorance.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”--George Santayana, 1905..
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