Precisely my point; perhaps I was too subtle.  The original,
well-intentioned post implied (implied nothin' -- stated outright) that
today's college freshman have no knowledge of anything that happened before
roughly 1992.  To point out the fallacy in this argument, I applied that
same logic to senior citizens and discovered that many are too young to
remember Lindbergh, the Hindenberg, yadda yadda yadda.  But to say they have
no knowledge of these events is demonstrably wrong, as you so correctly
note.  I deliberately chose things that everybody knows, like "White
Christmas," to emphasize this point.

Sorry if I caused any confusion.

Eugene Dillenburg
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John G. Shedd Aquarium
1200 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Ill.  60605

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Very interesting! One question though, why is it you think that the song
"White Christmas" is on the endangerded songs list? I don't know about you
but I hear it every Christmas!
It's one thing to say that a person didn't go through something because he
or she wasn't born yet, but it's quite another to say that that person can't
know! What do you call history then?
Ed Murray