Hey there, I did not know where to place this so I'll just put it here.

Before summer vacation we had a history lesson. (My favourite thing on school with sport)

And it was about one of my favourite subjects in history lessons. World War II. My friend always get a little nervous when we talk about this subject ( He is jew and his grandparents don't have fond memories of WW II ( No one has ) )
And someone else asked. Will we ever forget WW II? I personally think that it would be bad if we forget WW II


We Should not forget it. It was so bad and we don't want it to happen again. We have to think about all of the innocent people. I recently went to a Dutch WW II move ( The dutch are really good at those ) It's called 'Oorlogsgeheimen' Which translates to Warsecrets. It was a darn good movie. The end was..

But anyway, Will we ever forget WW II? I don't think so and it would be really really bad if we do. 

Why bring it up now? It's been 100 years since the first World War, so I think that gets priority.

After all, without WW1, there'd be no WW2.

They should always be remembered. Those were horrible times, where millions of people died because of the ideals of a madman.
We, as the current population, should do anything we can to prevent it from happening again.

They were horrible times, and I do not think that they will be forgotten, nor should they be forgotten entirely, but many countries (especially in South East Asia) are using the past as a means to quarrel in the present. The majority of the people that were alive and participated in the horrible and atrocious acts in the past are dead, and people need to move on. It is one thing to remember the past, but it is another to use it as a tool of conflict in the present. 

FunnyFurret : I bring it up now because someone asked me.

I agree with sop and Furret, we should remember them as they are examples of how wrong humanity can be sometimes but on the other side it's an old thing, most people who have memories left from it are already dead, we need to move on. I hope that when there are more conflicts people will remember that we should not forget this.

imamonster : With how many millions of WWII movies I HIGHLY doubt it, and usually alot of things that are old get told about and talk for centuries and millennium's. Why do we still hear things about 1500-1700's even now, because they're either horrible events or something so surprising that we CAN"T forget about it. Funny thing is Furret xD we RARELY talk about the WWI and few movies do as well I don't get why?


So no I don't believe it will ever be forgotten, such as people 100/1000's of years from now not forgetting about the JFK and other wars that have come afterwards.

sonicthehedgehog57 : 99% of our current society didn't experience WO1. A lot of times, we underestimate how terrible it really was.

If we were there when it happened, it would be talked about a lot more. Nowadays, soccer seems more important, because that's something all of us can relate to.

History repeats itself. Look at all the wars that happened, they are almost carbon copies, but with bigger guns.

But back on topic, I don't think we will, people lost too much for it to be forgotten. It would be like forgetting that one had an attack yesterday (when looking at the history of the earth, WWII was just a tiny time period ago.) It would be tragic to forget the brave sacrifices of the soldiers that lost their life!

darthyoda : I don't mean to go entirely too off-topic, but that second sentence "Look at all the wars that happened, they are almost carbon copies, but with bigger guns" is far-fetched. That would be the same thing as saying all games are the same in a genre, and every sports match is the same. They simply share similarities, but the strategies were different, the outcomes were different, and different things happened to different people. It would be asinine to assume they were even remotely close to carbon copies. 

sop281 : But look at how many wars share the same battlefronts, and the same reasons. Specifically in Europe. The wars have been for the same reasons, same places, but with different people. And usually the outcome is similar. Napoleon never took all of Europe, and none of the French kings did either.

But back to topic. The War wasn't that long ago, I visited Normandy, and it still has the scars of war. The city I live in was rebuilt during my lifetime, and it was destroyed in World War II:  /  

My family when we moved, the building in the first picture was like that. After the 1990s, the war was only 50 years old then. In many ways the war WON'T be forgotten because the people who fought in it are still alive. Many veterans just reached the age of 90 years old.

At the moment and probably in the near future we will not be forgetting World War II any time soon mostly because of media entertainment , public fascination and the fact that a lot countries had an involvement in the war but in the grand scale of time WWII is just a blip in the radar so I do imagine if people are around a million years from now they probably will forget about it.

I've always been fascinated with WWII, and every time my history teacher went over it, I was quite interested. I'm not sure if my grandfather has anything to to with it, as he was a part of WWII, but I just found WWII... interesting.

Anyway, from what I have learned, WWII was a HUGE turning point in history. It was a prelude to the Cold War, which lasted about 40 or so years, The creation of the U.N, which was ironically made to stop conflicts in the world (yet the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars happened, as well as genocide in Rwanda), the splitting of Germany into the communist East Germany and capitalist West Germany (which was later reunified after the Soviet Union collapsed), the stripping of Japan's army (besides a small police force, which is still in effect to this day), and, IIRC, a bunch of nations wanted democracy and freedom from their mother country. They got it, albeit most got it through bloodshed.

I don't think that we would forget WWII because of how much in influenced the rest of the 1900's, which is usually about 2 or 3 months of Social Studies in school.

It'll be impossible to forget about a war that created another country (Israel); a war that shown how deranged one person can be (gas chambers for Jewish people); a war that shown us that chemical, and biological, warfare is more dangerous than we can handle (Atom boms); There's so much about World War II that will never allow the whole thing to be forgotten about, it's one of those fixed-points in time that'll always be remembered and will never be forgotten about.

I don't think it's possible to forget about a major war like World War 2 in the 1900s. These were one of the wars that got most countries involved and the history and rivalries from that world will never be forgotten. That explains some reasons why some countries hate each other due to the past history whether it would be from invasions, wars, and etc...  It also shows some of the cruel actions and words of some countries who are willing to display their political and military powers across the world to be feared by other people and countries. War does bring the bad and ugly on whatever it takes to win the battle.
Not to forget that some history state tests have topics based on World War 2.

History should never be forgotten. This includes not only war, but the rise and fall of empires and the cultures and ways of life of those people, the great things they did, and the terrible things they did. WWII is no exception. Thankfully, WWII is studied to its most minute details and there are millions of pieces of literature available on the subject: books, films, even games (such as Wolfenstein), most likely because WWI and WWII are the earliest wars remembered by the people of the information generation that began in the late 1970s. Of course historians existed prior to the 20th century, but in the history of mankind, not until the last 40-50 years was information recorded in such detail.

I think more importantly WW1 shouldn't be forgotten. It's a prime example of how conflict leads to more conflict. WW1 led to WW2 and WW2 led to conflict in the Middle East etc. One of the largest genocides in the history of the world is impossible to forget. It may not be as big of a deal as it was in a 100 or so years from now but it's something that will be remembered as one of the most tragic events in history. It feels like WW2 was 100 years ago but the truth is that it was only 75 years ago.

I've spoken to 2 holocaust survivors which is a big deal because this will be the last generation to ever speak to them.

We remember wars that were fought thousands of years ago. I see no logical reason WW2 would be forgotten anytime soon.

No one will ever forget about World War II because the reason why is all the events that happened in 1939-1945, and plus, this war, most of the countries got involved (both the European and Pacific sides). Also, for major wars, we always never forget, depending on what country you live in, like in the United States, we all still remember all the way back to the American Revolution and that's been like 238 years ago, and every war since, well, mostly the major wars like that war, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Cold, Korean, Vietnam, & The Middle East.
We all never forget these wars because even today, look at some of the books, movies, games, T.V. shows, etc, that has things related to WWII, so I think this easily tell us we won't ever forget for quite sometime.

tornadocam : I have to agree with you 100%, they are a few people out there think that the Holocaust didn't happen and I have to say that that event did happened based on evidence and experience from people that had to endure that tragic event, it makes me believe that it has in fact happened.

So, will we ever forget World War II, more in likely not, especially on the veterans that fought in the war.

One of my Grandfather's served in WWII. One of the reasons I joined the Army. My family will never forget about WWII, even if just for that reason alone.