and I've never heard of Hyman Rickover, and only know Luther Burbank because of a local park being named after him. Developing the modern submarine and contributing to the history of American agriculture are great things worthy of note, but I don't think most HS graduates or their country are suffering much from not knowing anything substantive about those two. I think thie guy may

I think the author has unreasonable expectations of a public education system that spends a single year on US history.

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