INTRODUCTION

I can remember back when President Kennedy was assassinated.  I was almost eleven at the time.

As we were watching his funeral on TV a few days later, my mom made the comment to me that history was being made.

And this is so true.  Even though it was a current event to us that took place while we were going about the everyday things of life--along with thinking about the upcoming holidays (Christmas & Thanksgiving)--there would eventually come a day when there would be people reaching adulthood who might have been around when this happened but would be too young to remember it.

And, now, there are adults old enough to have kids the age I was then and even older who weren't even born at that time.

Another current affair had found a place in history books right along with Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, The Civil War, Betsy Ross, Joan Of Arc, and other people and places from another place in time.

I want to use this page to share bits of my history with you--and, at times, bits of the history of others.

History isn't just some sort of meaningless course where you have to memorize a bunch of dates and facts.  The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was as much a current affair to somebody as the assassinations of, among others, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have been to me.

When Johnny Comes Marching Home was to someone back during The Civil War what Last Train To Clarksville, Ballad Of The Green Berets, and others are to those of us who grew up during The Vietnam War.

Do we ever learn from history?  Or does it just repeat itself using a slightly different twist to a well-worn plot?  I would hope that we learn something so that the best parts of history will repeat themselves in new and even better ways while the worst parts will eventually not be repeated!