Two women talking about the movie "War Horse", were saying it was a Civil War movie!

[brewens]

Good God! You know who didn't pay much attention in history class. I haven't seen it yet but from the trailer I knew it was WWI.

[MADem]

1. Hell, no one had an iPod in the movie--it had to be a long, long, LONG time ago!

I know there have been stupid people down through history, but that's kind of sad.

[lunatica]

2. The story has nothing to do with the US does it?

[trumad]

4. nope

British and Germans,, I loved the movie.

[brewens]

12. Oh man! I thought it couldn't get any stupider. Not even

the U.S. Army, and they still thought it was Civil War. They actually made a kind of snide comment, "ok Mr historian!" It was all about it making them cry.

[unblock]

3. you mean to tell me there was a world war BEFORE wwii????!! who knew!!

[Scuba]

6. LOL Thanks, that made my day.

[hobbit709]

5. Stupidity just isn't painful enough.

[JHB]

7. It had war horses, but no frock coats and powdered wigs...

...so it must have been the Civil War. I mean, like, how many are there?

It's only about WW1 if it's about biplanes or trenches. Mostly biplanes.

[hayrow1]

8. No doubt these women were home schooled Bush appointees to the Dept. of Education

Probably graduated cumma sum lauda from Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

[RZM]

14. Unfortunately, it just means they are normal people

Probably educated the same way as you or I. Not a lot of interest in history or good historical knowledge out there.

I try to shy away from saying John and Jane Average are morons, because that's not really my style. But as somebody who has taught history, I can tell you first hand that it's an uphill battle. A lot of people unfortunately lack the most basic knowledge. Of course, I'm sure that goes for a lot of other subjects too.

Let me also take this opportunity to invite all DUers to the history forums here. There's a free tote bag with every subscription (ok not really)

American History

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1163

World History

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1166

[csziggy]

16. Thanks - I didn't know those where there!

I keep running into questions about history while doing my genealogy, so it will be nice to have a place to go to ask questions.

[RZM]

17. Just curious

With a handle like 'csziggy' I'd have to guess that some of your research had led you to Poland?

[TexasProgresive]

9. Well I thought it was about Korea

I mean they had horses in Korea-Col Potter had Sophie.

I love animals in general and horses in particular. I don't want to see this movie if it portrays the destruction of horses by enfilading machine gun fire and barbed wire. War is Hell but WW I eliminated horse cavalry from war except in places like North Africa.

[pinboy3niner]

11. I'm guessing they got their Ph.D.s with honors at Liberty U.

[brewens]

19. One is a 64 year old recruiter, the other a 50ish driver. I work with both of them.

The recruiter is not real bright and is GROSSLY overpaid. The driver is a real trooper but not real sharp. She trained me and I blew by her expertise wise in a couple weeks. We also register blood donors and do data entry. It was no time before I was also handling minor IT stuff that they wouldn't have trusted her with.

It just shows you how little some people know about history. It's so easy for politicians to misslead people like that.

[2ndAmForComputers]

22. Ah, I get it. Public education baaaaad, private education goooood.

[bemildred]

13. I wanna recommend this entire thread.

[riderinthestorm]

15. Nearly 8 million horses died in WWI. So few survived that the movie War Horse is like a sick joke

I can't bring myself to watch the movie personally but even I knew it was WWI

[csziggy]

18. Yeah, in a book I have about a horse trader Europeans came to the US to buy horses

After WWI. This horse trader was working out of the Chicago stock yards and for a while no horses went to slaughter because so many had been killed in Europe, the Europeans were buying nearly every horse. For the Germans who had him finding horses for them, the only criteria was that the horses had to be tall.

Also, remember that not all the horses that died were killed by the war. A strain of the "Spanish" flu also hit horses hard and it was carried all over the world like the flu that killed so many millions of humans.

[Proles]

20. Stories like this actually make me cry, rather than laugh.

Civil War? Did they actually see the movie?

[brewens]

21. Yeah. They said they did, talked all about how it made them cry.

I can't wait to see it now. You'd think they would have gathered it was in Europe at some point. France I presume.

No way I could have made that up. It would never have occured to me anyone would be that clueless.