A bit of background. When I was 9, I moved to Massachusetts and before I could even get properly settled in, our school did the unit on the Revolutionary War. I immediately got to know everything I wanted to ever know about the war and then some. We made field trips to battle sites, memorized all of these complicated names like the "Intolerable Acts" and drew pictures of the Boston Tea Party.

All in all, because I really like history, I thought it was a cool thing. Every year, in fact, I watch Gettysburg or Glory or another film about America's history so I can remember that freedom isn't always easy, even if it's always worth it.

Today, however, I was thinking about the Founding of America and all my random ancestors who fought for independence and I had a random thought.

Undoubtedly, in order to maintain the Empire, there had to be some measures set in place to make sure people always thought it was better than what they had. The fall of the Republic was played up by our favorite boy Palpatine as for the prosperity and security of society and people were, for the most part, pretty enthusiastic about the idea.

But what about their kids?

Did the average Imperial kid get to a point in school where they drilled into their heads the injustices of the Separatists and the traitorous, Benedict-Arnold-Jedi? Did they know about the Petition of the 2000 that forced the Chancellor to quell the Senatorial treachery and put an Emperor in place to protect his people?

Did they feel patriotic about this? How early was it started? Was it left to the parents and their sense of loyalty to the Empire or was that considered too risky?

Now, while I grew up feeling proud of what happened in the Revolutionary War, I have this strange idea of the Empire kinda having a bit of the Hitler Youth indoctrination programs to make sure that those kids grew up wanting to fight for the Empire's sovereignty just as much as their parents did.