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subscribers this is Chris Flannery with the Claremont Institute. I call this one our finest hour.

Sometimes it can help to know you're not alone.

And as bad as history and civics education in America has become over the past half century

and the past few years, America is certainly not alone in the historical and civic ignorance being inflicted on its younger generations.

I was reading recently the very good one-volume biography of Winston Churchill by Andrew Roberts. It's called Walking with Destiny.

It's well worth reading and in his conclusion Roberts tells a story that shows that our educational

misery has company. Churchill's mother was an American. He was a

great champion of the American cause and he became the first official

recipient of honorary American citizenship in 1963 while he was still living.

Since he was the greatest statesman of the 20th century,

it does us honor to regard him as one of our own

and to regard historical remembrance or forgetting of Churchill

as part of the American story.

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