Arsenal VG-33
Senior Airman
Every country which took part in any major event which has gone done in the annals history has naturally put their national spin on it. It's only naturally that people take pride in what their own forces did. Over the recent years however, this has evolved in over emphasizing their importance and leaving out the sacrifices/contributions of others.
Anyone who uses any of the major television sources (CNN, FOX, CBS, etc.,etc.) as a outlet for their own education is a lost cause (not you....but society in general). It's been my observation that people who tend to watch/listen the telly/radio the most, are also the most easily influenced, more often than not by the last thing they've seen/heard. With telly and radio personalities achieving quasi-celebrity status, combined with flashy and repetitive visual and audio bling, people who watch/listen on a regular basis, and without doing any cross referencing whatsoever, tend to be very accepting of the information received, regardless of how true or false it is, (mostly the latter). Lastly, I truely worry over democracies where the press is running headlong into the venue of sensational tabloids. You tell them that polar bear paratroops landed in Berlin long enough and loud enough, they'll believe you. Was there not a report only 1 or 2 years ago, stating that most people in a certain age bracket were getting most of their information from late-nite talk show hosts???
There is no substitute for a good book - many of them - comparative research and cross referencing.