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America, Do Not Forget History
Finally, there is a great tradition of warnings in Presidential farewells, and I've got one that's been on my mind for some time. But oddly enough it starts with one of the things I'm proudest of in the past 8 years: the resurgence of national pride that I called the new patriotism. This national feeling is good, but it won't count for much, and it won't last unless it's grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.
An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties.
But now, we're about to enter the nineties, and some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection.
So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important -- why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. You know, 4 years ago on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who'd fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, ``we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.'' Well, let's help her keep her word. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.
Good Bye America
And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'them know and nail 'them on it. That would be a very American thing to do.
Do you remember America? if you read about it in a history textbook，you probably learned about the land of oppression，racism，sexism，income inequality. police brutality and imperial wars，beside from that it was a great place. that is how America is portrayed in most American high schools and colleges，in America’s media films and biased progressive politicians.
In the words of filmmaker Michael Moore，America is "a nation founded on genocide，built on the backs of slaves，and maintained through the subjugation of women to second-class citizenship and economic disempowerment"．Is that America’s history？Is that who Americans were and are？
George Orwell said "the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." Orwell understood that history is much more than a collection of facts. history and our understanding of it tells us who we are as a people in the same way your personal memories and experiences define in shape who you are. Wipe out your memory and you wiped out your identity. When you raise a generation of Americans to hold their countries past in contempt by exaggerating America’s faults and ignoring it’s triumphs，then they will have no respect for American institutions or the beliefs in which the nation is based. It hasn’t always been that way. Until the last few decades liberals and conservatives alike shared a common understanding of America’s origins. It’s history and its mission spreading liberty within America and around the world. They recognized America as the country of the Pilgrims in Jamestown, of the self-evident truths of the declaration of independence, of the individual rights won through revolution and secured in the US Constitution . This was the country of the frontier spirit with almost unlimited possibilities. The country the paid for the sin of slavery with the carnage of its Civil War.
If economic dynamism, and endless invention of unparalleled individual opportunity in the country that defeated fascism and communism in the 20th century. Previous generations took all this for granted and reveled in it ! so what changed？
Starting in the 1960s, a new so-called progressive narrative took hold; so not to uplift and inspire and unite，but to demean to degrade and divide, such as replace the pride of American achievement with shame. Ironically this all happened while America was making extraordinary strides in civil rights, especially for minorities and women. But anything less than perfection, which can never exist given that every society is composed of flawed human beings, is now considered a total failure，and victims of the past are elevated as an indictment of the present. Along the way all the classic American touchstones have been undermined according to the progressive narrative.
Christopher Columbus discovered America only to despoil it. The founders wrote the constitution only to codify their ownership of slaves, The great captains of industry Enrich themselves only by exploiting the poor.
American traditions that were perfectly acceptable even a few years ago, pledging allegiance to the flag, singing the national anthem, even saying merry Christmas Have been called into question, mocked, and sometimes banned.
The outcome of this new nonviolent Civil War between those who hold America and its history in contempt and those who, without denying his flaws, revel America will determine the future of the American experiment the new history we will make. is America a country that was built by slavery? or a country that overcame and abolish slavery at the cost of 600,000 lives? Is America a country of rampant discrimination? or Accepting people in active pursuit of a more perfect union? is it a country of grinding exploitation or a land of limitless opportunity?
The time has come to choose, how will you remember America. I’m James Robbins ，columnist for USA today, and author of Erasing America, for Prager University.
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