Kansas State Historical Society Library

So many times I have run across people who ask me? “Why do you bother learning about history?”  “It’s over and done with.” The answer is so simple for me, “Because I enjoy the search and learning about life prior to my life.” How did people live, how did they entertained themselves? How did our country developed to what it is today? My family a huge supporters of the military. My grandfather was part of the Great White Fleet that sailed around the world. My father was stationed on the USS Nashville cruiser during WWII. It was General MacArthur flagship, till it was put out of commission from a Kamikaze  plane hit. My father’s cousin was on the Yorktown aircraft carrier that we lost during the battle of Midway. I have cousins that served in Vietnam, other ones that served over 20 years and retired, myself included.

Let me get off my family’s history, let’s talk about the more important issues concerning history. We all have seen the repeat of various history events that reoccur. How will we be able to know how to handle certain situations, if we hadn’t learn from the first time. We burn our hand on a hot skillet, so we don’t handle it the same way the second time. With the problems of leaders in charge wanting world domination. We seen it with the Persian Gulf War, and now we are seeing it with Russia and possible with China. From WWII, we saw what the outcome was from that.

Last but not least, we all seem to want to know where we came from, our Heritage. Where from and how did our ancestors arrive? Back to my family history, my father’s family lived through the depression of the 1930’s. Where my grandfather was very poor and had 8 children. My father and his next older brother had to hunt, fish and anything else that could help the family survive. There may come a time again, where we will have to defend for ourselves. Look at the past, it could happen again