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\u201cThe Protest at the Dock\u201d was scheduled for noon on a Tuesday, so it wasn\u2019t surprising to see mostly retired people out there waving their signs. My sister and I among them. Our \u201caudience\u201d was people in their cars and trucks lining up to drive onto the Edmonds-Kingston ferry and, after a new ferry docked, those coming back from Kingston. It was a friendly crowd, and many of them waved and honked back at us. We loved them for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The formal name for the demonstration was \u201cStand up to Fascism.\u201d As Sue and I moved around, admiring the artistry and ingenuity of the signs, we talked with people holding them. Several people made historical references to Europe in the 1930s and \u201840s. One man talked about his father-in-law who’d fought in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sue<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later, as we were walking toward Top Pot for coffee and donuts, a couple of young men, barely voting age, stopped us. \u201cHitler wasn\u2019t elected,\u201d the one with the cleverly gelled blond hair said, pointing at my sister\u2019s sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh, yes he was,\u201d Sue replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019d been infuriated for months about important facts the history books in her grandson\u2019s school left out. She was still talking about it while we waited for out coffees at Top Pot. The barista came right back at her with stories about how clueless her own teenage children were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tend to be more sympathetic. History is a huge<\/em> subject. I still don\u2019t know all the Civil War battlegrounds or the list of the Chinese dynasties in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not the point, though. While the rise of Hitler and the world war that followed is real for Boomers, it may not seem so for their grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time passes, and without real connections, you have to wonder, will history books be enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: Was Hitler actually elected? (Was Sue right?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                1932: Hitler’s party, the Nazi Party became the largest party in the Reichstag with 37.3% of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                1933: President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                1934: President Hindenburg died. Hitler called for new elections and, using fraud and voter intimidation, won 90% of the vote and became Furer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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