They should know about the boys of Pointe du Hoc and Doolit­tle’s Raiders, the bat­tles of Mid­way and Iwo Jima. They should learn about the courage of the young Amer­i­cans who fought the Nazis at the Bat­tle of the Bulge and the Ja­panese on Ok­inawa. They should learn why Amer­ica was right to end the war by drop­ping the atomic bombs on Hi­roshima and Na­gasaki, and about the fun­da­men­tal de­cency of a na­tion that es­tab­lished the Tru­man Doc­trine, the Mar­shall Plan, the Berlin Air­lift and the North At­lantic Treaty Or­ga­ni­za­tion. They need to know about the hor­ror of the Holo­caust, and what it means to prom­ise “never again.”