War Options

[+Ed+]

Today is the biggest holiday in Russia. It is called "The Victory Day".

And although we might have some germans reading the board, I would love to start a discussion with you, my friends.

What are you and your kids taught at school? What about the Second World War? Who held the victory? WHat was the meaning of the war? What do you now know about it and how you feel about it?

Or maybe someone does not know what the Second World War was? I sometimes meet the kids who never have a clue...

This post has been edited by +Ed+: May 9 2012, 3:16 am

[makemedream]

I have two children 12 and 15, through school there has been very little taught to them about WW2. Most of the focus is on our rememberance day ANZAC day 25th of April ,it is a WW1 day even though there are dawn ceremonies and marches with soldiers from all eras marching. Our family has been to these dawn ceremonies and marches and my kids understand a little of what our Australian troops went through. My background is Dutch and Italian with both my parents immigrating to Australia as a result of WW2 and this is where my children get there knowledge of WW2. I think its my responsibility to explain to my kids the things war has done to our family and they can see what a terrible thing it is. My grandparent was a prisoner in a german concentration camp, simply for being a teacher.. he never spoke of it but you could see the sadness in his eyes and I never really understood it until I was a parent. my father spoke of the utter poverty and fear they lived in rural Italy during WW2,people being shot in the town square by the germans and cousins blown to peices by explosives left behind by advancing allies forces. these things I tell my kids to show there is no glamour in war.. that when they play COD on Xbox... it comes from a dark reality...