laladestrukt

Most of the times in my life that I've had to call 911, I wasn't in a position to talk to the operator. What do you do when you get a call and there's a live line, but no one talking on the other end?

I'm from California and also had a small section of history taught over and over from 7th through 11th. For me it was the Nazi extermination camps, and not even the wider umbrella of concentration camps, specifically the death camps. Year after year of nightmare inducing Auschwitz "shower" stories.

About 3/4th's of every year was dedicated to this with a little time left for touching slightly on various relatively modern U.S. suffrage and civil rights movements, and one year we even got a little reconstruction. We got that without ever discussing colonialism or the civil war, but I guess they thought we learned that earlier.

The larger picture of WWII and what was going on back on the U.S. turf was pretty much glossed over. I can't say that all public education is crap, but mine was.