D'oh!-Day for Google (or not, as the case may be)

[Information Analyst]

BBC News: Google blunder over D-Day doodle

When I saw the headline, I assumed they'd cocked up by depicting something not from D-Day (e.g. the flag-rasing on Iwo Jima), rather than doing nothing at all!

 

[Polaris]

BBC News: Google blunder over D-Day doodle

When I saw the headline, I assumed they'd cocked up by depicting something not from D-Day (e.g. the flag-rasing on Iwo Jima), rather than doing nothing at all!

At least they remembered. I've told 3 people today that it's the 70th anniversary and all three asked me what D-Day is.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Don't they usualt just feature 'cultural' type events?

 

[Cleon]

A day of somber remembrance, thinking of those who bravely fought and died...

Commemorated by something called a "doodle?" I don't think so.

Christians were pissed off that Google didn't have a doodle for Easter, either. When did the human species become pathetic enough that people feel entitled to a *********** Google doodle?

 

[Babbylonian]

At least they remembered. I've told 3 people today that it's the 70th anniversary and all three asked me what D-Day is.

And? Unless one is hanging out a lot with 80+-year-olds, remembering the date of D-Day really doesn't need to be a priority.

 

[nvidiot]

Remembering the date is different from not knowing what the event was and represents.

 

[Babbylonian]

Remembering the date is different from not knowing what the event was and represents.

And it's still been 70 years. Personally, I don't see that much value in memorizing details of wars unless it's part of one's occupation or hobby. It's been a shorter time since the Chinese drove US troops back from the Yalu, and an even shorter time since Khe Sanh - I wouldn't expect most people to know much if anything about either event, including being familiar with the names.

 

[Checkmite]

Christians were pissed off that Google didn't have a doodle for Easter, either. When did the human species become pathetic enough that people feel entitled to a *********** Google doodle?

Google didn't commemorate a day I think they should've. This is obviously a deliberate slap in the face of everyone who commemorates this day!

For crying out loud.

 

[Polaris]

And? Unless one is hanging out a lot with 80+-year-olds, remembering the date of D-Day really doesn't need to be a priority.

They had no idea what D-Day was at all, not that it happened on June 6. Memorizing dates - despite what high school coaches/social studies teachers practice in the US - isn't history, it's chronology.

And it's still been 70 years. Personally, I don't see that much value in memorizing details of wars unless it's part of one's occupation or hobby. It's been a shorter time since the Chinese drove US troops back from the Yalu, and an even shorter time since Khe Sanh - I wouldn't expect most people to know much if anything about either event, including being familiar with the names.

Just because you don't see the value in knowing important events in one's culture and history doesn't mean they don't have value.

 

[Checkmite]

Just because you don't see the value in knowing important events in one's culture and history doesn't mean they don't have value.

I don't think he was implying that nobody should care about those events. I think he was just arguing that it's not a necessity, and you can be unconcerned with such events without it making you some kind of bad person.

 

[Babbylonian]

I don't think he was implying that nobody should care about those events. I think he was just arguing that it's not a necessity, and you can be unconcerned with such events without it making you some kind of bad person.

Yes, thank you. While I think there's a clear educational failure in evidence when someone doesn't know what D-Day is, I can't think of it as a big deal.

I was also making a tangential point about how we seem to forget our failures far too quickly compared to our victories (the former can be a lot more instructive than the latter), but I might have been too subtle about that.

 

[Agatha]

I was surprised that Google didn't commemorate the day with a doodle, but really, that was unimportant compared with the actual commemorations going on in Normandy.

My ex-partner's father landed on Sword beach 70 years ago today. He was one of the lucky ones who survived the day, and my ex has been in Normandy all this week to honour his father's memory and the sacrifice of so many. I don't think the people in Normandy today for the commemoration services really care about the Google doodle - it's the armchair commentators making the fuss.

 

[Corsair 115]

June 6th. 2014, is also the 72nd anniversary of the sinking of the USS Yorktown (and USS Hammann) as the concluding event of the Battle of Midway.

 

[Andy_Ross]

To be honest I have had enoughof it today. It's been none stop 'live from a beach'.