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scarlettina

The Monuments Men and one particular legacy of WW2

Feb 23, 2014 07:58

Last Tuesday night, I went out with varina8 to see The Monuments Men, the new George Clooney film set toward the end of World War II about the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, created to scout and save artworks, structures and archives of cultural or historical importance from theft or destruction. The movie itself hasn't gotten very good ( Read more... )

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joycemocha February 23 2014, 16:13:34 UTC

I got an interesting perspective on this passage of time about five years into teaching. Up until about then, the kids I was teaching were old enough to have had some sort of experience of 9/11 that they could remember. After that--no. It becomes a part of a life they've always known, not the marker of a massive jump in security (and that could be and probably will be a post I will do).

But another element of the passage of time as a middle school teacher is when you encounter former students as adults--with children of their own. Some of the children of my former students will be starting school in a couple of years. Prosaic, but...yeah. Time passes.

kistha February 23 2014, 18:41:04 UTC

I saw way to many concentration camp shows (factual, historical not fiction) on TV when I was way too young to not have a real permanent understanding of the horrors of WWII. I have no real positive sympathy to balance it though.

I have some understanding of the horrors of Vietnam thanks to two uncles who were in it, Platoon and the wall in D.C. But the horrors of WWII are the ones that stick to me. I rarely watch any of the movies about WWII, and certainly none of the ones about the holocaust, but I may see monument men.

twilight2000 February 23 2014, 19:34:59 UTC

oddly, I could have written this post word for word (subbing "Berkeley" for "Hebrew School", weirdly) - every word of this rang amazingly true for me :>.

garyomaha February 23 2014, 19:53:45 UTC

The older I get, the more I believe that my parents felt that their Main Mission In Life was to shield little Gary from everything and anything they could. Rather than share stories and offer teachable moments, I believe (at least from my memories) they kept all that away from me ( ... )