I have a younger sister named Alexis. She is in grade 12 this year and over the weekend she was telling me about a kid in her class that said something that really bothered her, as well as myself.
In my sisters ELA Lit. class they read a book called Night. This book is based on a true story of a man's struggle through the Holocaust. It looked like a really interesting read and something that you could learn from. A girl in Alexis's class said that this was a really stupid book, and that she hated it. She then went on to say that history is really stupid and it doesn't matter what happened then because it had nothing to do with her. WOW. When I heard this I was so infuriated. How can someone be so insensitive, stupid, thoughtless to say something like that. Words cannot even describe.
Alexis did the a very similar thing that I did when she heard about that, she wrote about it, like I am going to do now. I do not for the life of me understand how anyone could say something so shallow. I love history. I think it is something that we need to learn and understand. If men did not die for my country so I could be free I would not be here right now. So for someone to say that history has nothing to do with them is such an understatement. History is what you are. It is amazing how selfless the people were for us now. People that they had no idea were even going to exist, but they still went and died for us. For you to say history doesn't matter shows how selfish you are.
I could rant for a very long time about this topic. It is something that young people NEED to learn about. It is something that needs to be respected and remembered.
"if we don't learn our history, we're doomed to repeat it".
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