Would you obey orders to go "over-the-top" (going out of the trench) into the open fire of machine guns if you only had a rifle? Why or why not?
-Katie S.
We must understand the past to know who we are and where we are going... on this web page you will find the daily class agenda, historical resources, and, as a class we will analyze historical events and discuss our thoughts on a variety of issues both in history and current events. You will be able to read your classmates comments, and respond to their thoughts and ask other questions regarding history that you may have.
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
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-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy
7 comments:
I guess that I would "go over the top". It sounds crazy, but I think that if everyone else was going to, you would feel like a complete coward if you didn't.
Kind of like in the movie we watched today, when the mom of the solidier who died said, "What right do you have to be alive when my son died." I think that if you didn't go over the top, the guilt would eat at you and make you feel really bad. You would feel like a complete coward, and you would regret not fighting for your country.
It would require alot of courage, but I think that I wouldn't have the courage to be the only one left alive and alone in the trench either.
Well said Amy, Well said...
I don't know about you guys but I don't think that I would go over the hill!!! It may be different in the heat of battle but I don;t think that I would go over the top. I'd much rather be called a coward than get killed. I like my life thank you very much!!!!!
i would not because, it is pointless losing another person to a machinegun. i would wait until the machine gun people died or something until I would go over the top and fight. -Brooke
I wouldn't go over the top. I would be too chicken to risk my life against something way more powerful than me.
what are you guys talking about, i'd definetly go over the top, because if you didn't, your commanding officer would probably just shoot you. And if you ran away, you'd get hunted down and killed for desertion. Amy is right,
i would sooo not go over the top because you know ur going to lose ur life, ur not helping out ur country by just getting shot. if u dont go over u still have ur life to actually HELP ur country!!
ok well after reading nat's comment...that i didnt kno about. so either way ur goin to get shot...well then maybe i would go over the top.
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