University of Wisconsin

Madison Wisconsin

5/31/99

Why is there an education problem in the United States?

We were looking at our sons high school history book that you happened to write. We offer an comparison to an older text. I certainly see a "Leftist, Hate America First" agenda, here at work. What else would you expect from someone who says "Clinton tried to avoid the draft" (in chapter 32, pg. 942). Clinton did avoid the draft, and the draft board did come out and say they were hoodwinked. Clinton is still a liar.

The way you like to "balkanize" America, every conceivable minority group, a victim of the evil white male, is a crying shame, the fact that taxpayers pay you do it says it all.

Getting back to the point of this letter, we can teach our children that, "This was total war, enlisting all the energies of the nation." or as you seem to prefer the lesson of W.W.II was "that discrimination and inequality still existed in American society". Famous final words eh?

History of a Free People Copyright 1954-1961 by The Macmillan Company

The Home Front

To play its great part in the victory over the Axis, the United States had to mobilize its man power and resources more completely and quickly than ever before. By 1944 the number of men in uniform totaled over eleven million. Thousands of women joined the armed forces, performing noncombatant services. Scores of thousands of civilians spotted airplanes and trained themselves to deal with possible air raids. Even with so many men under arms, the total number of those employed rose to new heights. As one historian of the war wrote:

American society proved to be still remarkably fluid. As each new plant opened men and women lined up at the personnel offices to learn new kills. Housewives took up welding. High school kids learned to run lathes. Old people remembered half-forgotten trades. The population was on the move. Families from the Ozarks and the Alleghenies managed to patch up jalopies and move to the new shipyards on the Gulf Coast or to the new steel plants in California. Trailer camps became a feature of the roadside landscape. War production set off a migration comparable to the westward movement after the Civil War.

This was total war, enlisting all the energies of the nation.

Todd & Curti’s The American Nation by Paul Boyer. Copyright 1995 Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

The Home Front

Although World War II was fought on the battlefields of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, American farms and factories also helped win the war. As the United States mobilized its resources for combat, the entertainment industry helped sustain morale. For Japanese Americans the war resulted in confinement in remote camps. For African Americans, Mexican Americans, and women, the conflict brought both new opportunities and reminders that discrimination and inequality still existed in American society.