If CNN today reported a survey in which 1 out of every 4 Americans under 25 believed that John F. Kennedy never existed, would you be worried? What would worry you about the state of our educational system? What about the state of parenting in general? Would you even care? It would scare me shitless! Why? A youth with no sense of history is a youth with no sense of self and that is a dangerous youth…. That is a youth who walks into malls and schools not with a wallet or book but with an automatic weapon.

So what is almost as bad as 25 percent of our youth not believing J.F.K existed? 25 percent of England’s youth not believing that Winston Churchill existed! I am not kidding on this one. In a recent survey of London youth, 25 percent believed that Winston Churchill did not really exist and was a “mythical figure” Don’t they teach history over there? Are there that many children not going to school? Are London youth simply so disillusioned and disaffected about their present that they simply can not related to or believe in any strong figures in their past…..

While I am not an expert on English historical values, I would think that teaching their youth about a figure that played a large role in saving them from learning to “goose-step” would be a educational imperative

Anyway you cut it such a stat should scare the hell out of them. It sounds like the youth of London are certainly disconnected from their history. After disillusioned comes disconnected, after that comes disaffected. Then comes the most dangerous D of all to a nation (other than death), disenfranchised.

From the ranks of disenfranchised youth come home grown terrorists and those who have no qualms about turning on their own….

My children are going to live and breathe U.S. history. I’m not taking any chances……