{"id":136705,"date":"2018-06-10T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136705"},"modified":"2018-06-11T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:15:45","slug":"as-recent-history-fades-to-distant-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/10\/as-recent-history-fades-to-distant-history.html","title":{"rendered":"As Recent History Fades to Distant History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the snickers (and\/or outrage) over the gaffe by Rep. Drew Ferguson (GOP from Alabama), posting a D-Day remembrance that featured a picture of German troops in the field, I’m ready to believe that the pic was put in place by “an intern at a digital media company that works with the congressman\u2019s campaign”.<\/p>\n

This goes right along with State Dept. spokeswoman Heather Nauert using D-Day as an example of how close the US\/Germany relationship is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fact is, even if they kind of know about it, WW2 is practically as far in the past today as the Spanish-American War was when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

It’s not that WW2 isn’t relevant to younger generations today, nor that (esp. from a State Dept. spokescritter) we shouldn’t expect more, but it’s gradually becoming more of an intellectual matter, not an emotional \/ cultural one. Perhaps that’s a contributing reason why there’s been a resurgence in alt-Right \/ fascistic \/ Nazi thought among younger people.<\/p>\n

What we should expect are more mistakes like these. Not as part of a sinister conspiracy. Just because the history they touch on is increasingly distant, and increasingly less central to our world.<\/p>\n


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\nFACT CHECK: Did a Georgia Lawmaker Tweet a Photograph of Nazis on D-Day?<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Despite the snickers (and\/or outrage) over the gaffe by Rep. Drew Ferguson (GOP from Alabama), posting a D-Day remembrance that featured a picture of German troops in the field, I’m ready to believe that the pic was put in place by “an intern at a digital media company that works with the congressman\u2019s campaign”. This … Continue reading “As Recent History Fades to Distant History”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[1549],"class_list":["post-136705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","tag-ww2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/unnamed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44894,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-relics-of-kiska.html","url_meta":{"origin":136705,"position":0},"title":"The Relics of Kiska","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Sep-14 4:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I believe one of my great-uncles fought in the Aleutians during WW2, but I don't recall precisely. 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