Yesterday was

"Remembrance Day", in which NASA commemorates the the lives of the seventeen US astronauts who died in the line of duty.

And it is just a coincidence and a sad one as well, that Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin rabid with the desire to get her claws on the collar of the President cannot get straight in her head as who won the cold war or even the race to the moon.

Normally I'd take a lot of easy shots at Palin, she is a big slow moving target prone to hilarious self incrimation, but just once I'd like to note that she gets into these tangles time and time again because of her abysmal ignorance of US history.
Now, a politician can be a successful for a while and flaunt his or her ahistorical bona fides William Jennings Bryan for example. But sooner or later that ignorance comes back to haunt them, Bryan at the end of his life gave cringeworthy testimony in a court of law denying that man was a mammal in any sense of the word...It takes a lifetime of hard slogging thru sheer intellectual wastelands to come to a thought that stupid.
And so it is with Sarah, she profits by this sort of behavior for now, but just remember those who doze thru their history classes, inevitably become history's victim...metaphorically speaking of course.