[tcmart14]

Regional history, people don't understand how much there is. I never heard about the one bomb dropping on the continental 48 during World War 2 until I moved to Oregon, because where that happened it probably 2-3 hours away from me (bomb on a balloon). Grew up in the rural south. Like wise, my Wife who grew up in Oregon has never heard of Blair Mountain and the struggle between the the Union and the Mining company. Or she only knows of the Hatfields and McCoys from pop culture reference but doesn't actually know any of the story behind it. The US has a surprising large amount of this.

[daveslash]

Wow, I had not heard of that - thank you for sharing. I've now gone and read up on it.

Similarly, many people "forget" (in quotes, since we're picking on that word today!) that some of the deadliest fighting in the Pacific was in Alaska*. Deadliest in terms of kill ratio, not total dead).

https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2018/05/27/75-years-later...