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My daughter is 9 1/2 and hadn't really learned much about the 4th of July yet in school.
So we decided to watch a docudrama about it, and told her this was the movie:
She was blown away. We'd stop and talk about things that were happening, I had to come up with so many hilarious lies on the spot.
Told her it happened in 1992 when I was in 9th grade and my wife was in 8th grade.
Told her we call it the Alien War.
She said, with a little fear "how do we know this won't happen again if it already happened once?"
Told her it took 20 years to rebuild all the cites and that they used the metal of the destroyed alien ships to rebuild everything.
She asked "wait, they rebuilt the statue of liberty?" Me: "Well yeah, it's a national icon."
She said "How have I never heard about this? Why don't people talk about it?" Me: "I think you'll learn about it in 4th grade. And people don't like talking about it, it's such a terrible time in the world's history even if it only lasted three days."
She surmised that they don't talk about it in school, but probably do in summer school because that's the only time kids are in school around the 4th of July.
She said "so all the people that always believed aliens aren't real were proven wrong by this movie."
She was also amazed to find that that part of history is when we learned that aliens weren't all green.
I am so proud of myself! :D When I confessed it was just a movie, she thought it was pretty hilarious that she believed all of it.