Well, remember that saying " Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. ". I thought I would never life to see the day when this seems to apt a saying. for example The MESS in USA Politics right now is directly connected to this saying. I really think there is a whole NEW generation who simply have not bothered to learn the basic fundamentals of what has happened in the past. They are simply tuned into their smartphones and not READING any books! There is a lazy attitude of NOT wanting to learn because they can Google it -- so time marches on and the SAD realization is that it is not that they FORGET or could not remember their history lessons, it is that they are not learning it at all in the first place. We live in a frightening World right now and I fear for our future generations. I have had converstaions with 20 year olds ( and I am 52 ) and they have a blank look on their face when I ask them who is Prime Minister John Curtin and why did he bring the Australian troops back from Europe in WW2 and why then did the American's come to Australia's rescue from Japan .... absolutely NO idea!