ANZAC DAY - LEST WE FORGET

Waterboyeee wrote:

Yeah, I hear ya. I honestly don't have an issue with what vercettitx said, personally, to the level of being a troll, ignorant, or disrespectful. I just didn't care for all "American education" to be lumped together in a negative way like that. I went to school in the United States and I was taught, and have heard of the Anzacs, and other important aspects of other countries. I am sure Americans could say the same. :)

People forget that some states have horrible, incomplete and completely rewritten (history, sciences) curriculums that are decided upon by local politicians instead of qualified and neutral educators which is why education is so broken in this country and why no two high school graduates will have the same level of knowledge on the same subject even if they both attended public school but in different parts of the country. I'm not surprised that certain states or counties within a state would perpetuate the idea that the US accomplishes/d everything on it's own but even in some American movies, at least about Vietnam, there's mention of the Australians being there. I guess one just has to pay attention to the drama and not just the action. Also, the so-called Coalition of the Willing during Iraq, Australia's in there too and that's within the past 10 years. I personally remember finding out about the Australia/Vietnam War connection watching a movie when I was a kid or perhaps it was that TV show China Beach.