How quickly we forget...

[mousme]

So early on Saturday morning I turned to Hottie!Coworker who was working night shift with me and said "Hey, it's officially D-Day. It's been 65 years, after all.

Her reaction?

"What's D-Day?"

I just about fell over. Even when I explained about the Normandy Landings she shrugged it off with a laugh and said she doesn't know anything about that sort of thing. She's 33 years old, so it's not an age thing.

I'm... honestly shocked. Yes, it's history, but it's still in living memory. How is it that so many of my generation are so ignorant?

Comments

[ravgonfly.livejournal.com]

sadly this happens all the time. I don't know if it is a break down in the education systems or if it is just plain ignorance is bliss. Sad that people don't seem to care about why the world runs as it does...

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

ignorance.