What our youth are learning today......???

the plan was to arm it on the ground. but after seing 29's crash and burn it was decided to arm it after take off.
 

I looked to see if I could find any information about whether this incident is verifiable, and I think it is fiction, too. The first reference i found for it was from 2013, so it surely didn't happen recently, as proclaimed by the article. I also found another article about Major Van Kirk, dated in 2010, and it states that even back then, he was disabled, and living in a senior retirement community, and not in any condition to be speaking publicly anymore; and I didn't find anything anywhere that suggested this really happened.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hiroshima-65-years-on-theodore-239076
 
Warrigal said:
I'm calling BS on that story about World War Eleven.
"A Grammar School" ? Do you have grammar schools in the USA.
He has spoken at Jefferson High but there was no walk out.

http://onlineathens.com/stories/032310/new_595025470.shtml
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You can find numerous fact-checking sites that call the story "unproven". Well, unless someone who was there stepped forward, there wouldn't likely BE any way to prove it. The teacher certainly would be likely to remain silent about the event. But, we do have one witness. Dutch himself. This took me a little time to find, but BBC radio interviewed the man in 2012 and he referred to the story as having recently happened to him.

It's recorded on the BBC Radio 4, "Saturday Live" program for 11 August 2012. A link to the recorded program is here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01lsqk4
At time 52:23, Dutch mentions the event himself but he said it was a high school (not an elementary/grammar school as sometimes reported).
 
I don't know why some underestimate the ignorance of others. A buddy is a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg. He was explaining how Robert E. Lee was attacking Union lines, during the US Civil War, when someone asked which way the German tanks came from..
And BTW, when I mentioned the ignorance of others, let me point out, we are all "OTHERS".
 
Kaya said:
Remember when we were kids? We were everywhere. In trees, playing from can't see to can't see, roller skating, riding out bikes, finding kids for tether ball and baseball and just a good ol game of tag. Nowadays...every kid is on the pc or their parents gave them a cell phone. Try looking for a kid outside playing. Good luck.
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Yes, I remember. So do my kids. The whole neighborhood would get together to play baseball in the cul-de-sac, unless it was raining or snowing. My collie would sit there watching them, and get the balls that went out of range of a quick retrieval by the kids. He was actually babysitting them. If one of my kids let our collie out due to carelessness, the whole neighborhood of kids would trail him ... it was like a parade. Their idea was to catch the dog, but I had to do that. Luckily he liked to ride in my SUV, so all I had to do was pull up and open the door.

The trick is to have safe outdoor spaces for kids to play, to not give kids cell phones until they are in high school, and to limit all screen time to between 1/2 hour and an hour a day (depending on their age). We didn't turn on our tv until the boys were three -- they got to watch one Spot the dog cartoon (I think his name was Spot) daily.
 

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