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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday with a gathering of historians, military veterans, and politicians who will reflect on the enduring impact of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings. Panelists will take a historical look at our world 80 years ago, and address the implications of President Reagan's Peace through Strength policies on today's world.
That was the slogan of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell s
, where Winston Smith worked ceaselessly revising the past to conform to the latest party line of Big Brother.
And so we come to the battle over history books in the schools of Texas. Liberals are enraged that a Republican-dominated Board of Education is rewriting the texts. But is the rewrite being done to falsify history, or to undo a liberal bias embedded for decades?
Consider a few of the issues.
The new texts will emphasize that the separation of church and state was never written into the Constitution.