The Vietnam war – also known as the American War in Vietnam, Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict – took place from the year 1959 all the way through to 1975. The war ended with a North Vietnamese victory some decade and a half later. The human cost of the war in Vietnam will never fade. Over one million military personnel and over one million civilians died. The war was between North Vietnam and South Vietnam – with the US backing the South. In the end the US withdrew, the Republic of Vietnam lost and both North and South ended up under the control of the communist government.
The United States government, and allied forces, opted to deploy a number of troops to South Vietnam following the First Indochina war, in 1954, all the way through to 1973. US military advisers had played a role in Vietnam since 1950, firstly helping French colonial forces. By 1956, these US advisers were responsible for training the South Vietnam armed forces. The number of US troops in Vietnam grew from the days of John F Kennedy, who was responsible for sending 16,000, to a more significant deployment under the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. While almost all of the armed forces departed following the Paris Peace Accords, the last troops left in April 1975.
During the Vietnam conflict, clashes took place in many different forms. Vietnam industry and infrastructure became a prime target during the conflict, which military tacticians generally target as a means of weakening their opponent and dampening morale – this was largely completed by US aircraft performing aerial bombings. Chemical Defoliants were also deployed as a means of reducing the ability for troops to seek cover in the mountains and jungles which were leveraged by North Vietnamese troops to initiate guerilla attacks. When the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell the war came to an end culminating in a North Vietnamese victory.
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Even those in a position of power and influence, who could have prevented the seriousness of the discrimination, chose not to. Teachers especially, could have helped prevent the younger generation from developing this type of discrimination in schools, out of schools and in later life. However, both German schools and the Hitler youth discriminated against Jews by teaching lessons that were designed to do this and to teach that Aryans were the superior race. One of the main areas of teaching where discrimination took place was in racial science where students were taught how Jews had a different skull shape/size to Aryans and other races and taught how they could identify a Jew by their physical features; this created a lot of discrimination towards Jews among the young people of Germany.
One of the events to describe and demonstrate how Jews were discriminated against in Germany is the April Boycott; for one day Germans all over the country were told not to buy from shops and business' owned by Jews. SA men stood by the doors of these shops to discourage anyone from going inside. The SA men would have discouraged business, leading business away from the Jews and back into Aryan owned businesses and shops. This is discriminating against the Jews and while it was probably very beneficial to the Aryans working at the time, the Jews would have lost business, and would be looked at differently by Germans.
In many places in Germany, there were signs that read 'Jews not welcome here'. These could be put on park benches, outside places of public interest, or even where it means that Jews are not welcome in the village, city or town. This separates Jews from the rest of the population, by discriminating against them, making Germans feel like they are different people to them, so they should be treated differently!
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Politically correct rewritten history has shades of 1984.
The Kentucky Board of Education has voted to join the ranks of those who are redefining how time is reckoned. Last month the Board voted to recognize BCE and CE as acceptable names of the two main epochs of history alongside the traditional BC and AD designations which target the birth of Jesus Christ as a dividing point in history and have been used for centuries.
“In today’s climate of being ‘politically correct’ and fearing to offend non-Christians, Kentucky has fallen into step with other organizations focused on sanitizing anything linked to Christianity,” says Finn Laursen, Executive Director of Christian Educators Association International. “There are no boundaries to individuals who want to silence Jesus’ influence. To remove BC and AD from our dating notations in history is simply revisionism.”
BCE stands for “Before Common Era” and is meant to be used in place of BC, meaning “Before Christ.” CE stands for “Common Era” and is suggested to be used in place of AD, an abbreviation for “Anno Domini,” which is Latin for “the year of the Lord.” Although the traditional designations are not strong religious symbols, they are reminders of the impact of Jesus Christ upon history and are repulsive to those who want to wipe out all traces of His existence.
Although these new notations are rarely used they are surfacing in textbooks and other writings. These designations are simply used to replace our tradition designations without changing the calendar numbering system.
The Kentucky Board took step one in including these new calendar notations in its Program of Studies when approving the recommendations made by the Kentucky Department of Education. The Program of Studies used to guide Kentucky educators is then incorporated into a state regulation. The process for finalizing the regulation is not yet complete.
There will be a public hearing on May 30, at 2:00 p.m. EDT in the State Board Room of the Capital Plaza Tower in Frankfort, Kentucky. Written notice of intent to attend the public hearing must be forwarded to Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, 1st Floor, 500 Mero St., Frankfort, KY 40601. Written comments will be accepted until May 31 and may be sent to the same address.
ldquo;I encourage Kentucky educators and friends of education to attend the meeting if possible and voice their concern over these changes. If attending is not possible, mail in comments before May 31. For those outside Kentucky, consider writing to Kevin Noland today and let the Kentucky Board of Education know that the rest of the country is watching,” suggests Laursen.
(Finn Laursen is the Executive Director of CEAI, est. 1953.
To interview Mr. Laursen, contact Doreen at 440-250-9566 or doreen@ceai.org
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Being polically correct on today’s campuses goes to far when elevating one group of people over another group through abuse.
Cross-posted from The National Ledger
By Jim Kouri
Feb 25, 2006
Parents will be surprised — at times shocked — to learn that leading colleges and universities have used the February Black History Month to lash out angrily at whites, to spread socialist and Marxist ideas, and to honor the Black Panthers, according to a statement released by the Young America’s Foundation.
They claim that missing from many Black History Month campus activities were positive messages and discussions about the accomplishments that blacks have made in business, education, government, and science. They also complain that "too few black conservative speakers, such as Ward Connerly, Walter Williams, and Star Parker, were invited to provide a balanced and uplifting message of Black Americans."
Fewer even mention such African-American luminaries as Secretary of State Condi Rice and General Colin Powell.
Young America’s Foundation researched the Black History Month calendars of 83 leading colleges and universities in the United States. The 12 schools listed below highlight the most flagrant instances of left-wing activism’s hijacking of an entire month. Instead of applauding the accomplishments of blacks in history, students were fed a steady diet of "victim politics" and anti-white sentiment.
The list will shock some, but most conservatives and moderates have come to expect such politically-motivated shenanigans from the institutions of higher learning in America.
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by Michael Bates
In last week’s column I wrote that if Illinois’ governor succeeds with his preschool scheme, the kiddies would be sent "off for a fun filled day of government indoctrination on the state’s dime." A teacher who disagrees kindly took the time to tell me why I’m wrong about that.
For one thing, she said, most teachers aren’t inclined to peddle a single political view. Despite the liberal positions taken by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, many teachers are not activists. There are, she asserted, even some who don’t vote a straight (if you’ll pardon that unPC term) Democrat ticket at elections.
Setting political views aside, there’s barely enough time for educators to teach the minimum skills children need to make it in life according to my correspondent. There are already so many demands on teachers that even if they wanted to proselytize, there aren’t sufficient minutes in the school day to do so.
I thought of that this weekend as I spent some quality time with my favorite five-year-old. She’s in kindergarten and when I asked her what she was learning, she was eager to share her knowledge.
"In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King gave a speech in front of a quarter million people in Washington, D. C," she stated. "He said:
‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.’ Dr. King was a great American."
Incredible. They’re teaching quotations from King’s speech in kindergarten. I doubt that the teacher had talked about King calling the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world" and comparing our troops in Vietnam to Nazis.
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