Without a Past

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George
Santayana

I was watching a video called  Pension Digitization Project at the National Archives. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWV9ObQUDRc

  It is amazing how much History is still being found on the U.S. Civil War.

 I guess we all have are favorite periods of history.

As a small 10 year old I could not get enough of anything that dealt with Abraham Lincoln. Growing older my eyes were opened up to WWII. Staying up late on weekends watching old WWII movies with my dad, him explaining  about the different weapons, and the generals who commanded the troops. As a teen, I experience the making of history by living the Vietnam War though the eyes of Walter Cronkite. 

Today you can ask a youth about the attack on Pearl Harbor and most will not know, but ask about 9/11 and they will know. History changes for each generation. It is sad that our schools pick out bits of history to teach our children.

Not to long ago while researching my family history, I found a whole generation of my family who led Militia's during the Revolutionary War. Others that help in founding one of the Original Colonies of America. One of my distant grandfather was the author that drafted the revolt that started the Boston Tea Party in which Thomas Jefferson used parts of in the Declaration of Independence.

It is things like this that brings History alive to me!

We are all a part of History. Each day history is being made.

Don't let History past you and your children by.

Search out your families, help history come alive in your eyes, and the eyes of your children.