D-day remembrance

Last week I watched the media coverage of the D-day landing. Everyone made it out to be a big thing. And, rightly so. But, no one ever talked about the causes - the cause of the Second World War.

I remember when we studied history in high school one question used to appear in our exam papers with unfailing regularity - "Explain how First World War was a cause for the Second World War?". Maybe, that was rather simplistic discussion - menat for only high school students. Maybe not...

Maybe it is the current media coverage that is rather simplistic. They would rather have you believe that the Nazi's were from Mars and the good guys on earth vanquished them. The truth is they were one of us. And, we created them. Whatever the case maybe as the saying goes - "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it". And, looks as though we are condemned to repeat it.