You know Sard, as a post script. One thing that really bothers me today is that it seems people have forgotten about the Great Depression and the effects that it had on people. Also, that people seem to be living in a seperate reality that we got through it so, it could never happen again in our lifetimes. I think people of my parents generation probably felt that they heard a little too much about the great depression, where as I don't feel that I heard enough. In all of my years in High School history, we never covered the Depression, the New Deal, Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs or even Nixon. Contemporary World Problems was a setup for kids to not dig into the real news, but rather concentrate on superficial things with Hollywood or what ever. I'm sure it hasn't improved, after hearing 60% of American grads are not able to point out Afghanistan on a map.