# The very overdue pitting of Susanann

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032 "2011-07-22T21:22:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-overdue-pitting-of-susanann/590032/148 "2011-07-24T04:40:29Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> [You don’t need to teach about WWII or Vietnam in school](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=580559).

Man, what a stupid argument. “You don’t need to teach history in school because you can just read a book from the library and listen to grampa’s war stories” - right, because the anecdotes that gramps tells you are totally accurate and not bias at all! Can you imagine the skewed version of history she passes on to her own kids? Also, what in the hell is wrong with kids learning about WWII or Vietnam in American History class? Isn’t that pretty much the kind of thing you talk about in a class like that?

I do like this quote from that thread:

> [@Why teach WWII and Vietnam in History Classes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-teach-wwii-and-vietnam-in-history-classes/555937/67):
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> The average person in the United States back in the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s didnt give 10 seconds thought to the war effort in Vietnam and most of them could not even find it on a world map.

I wasn’t alive in the 50s-70s, and I’m not even American, and even _I_ know that’s total bullshit.

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