History...

There is something so subtly powerful and significant about History. If we do not know and understand the facts about where our world, our cultures, our values, traditions, explorations, wars and legacies come from, we are actually living in a bit of ignorance i believe. To assume that history has nothing to do with us personally is very deceiving. I recently visited a beautiful little town called Charleston, filled with remnants of the American Civil War. Just to experience and immerse myself in the History that defines part of a nation was quite an awesome experience.

Historians do not perform heart transplants, improve highway design, or arrest criminals. In a society that quite correctly expects education to serve useful purposes, the functions of history can seem more difficult to define than those of engineering or medicine. History is in fact very useful, actually indispensable, but the products of historical study are less tangible, sometimes less immediate, yet so very crucial to mankind.

After all what else do we leave behind on this earth other than our History? the mark our lives have made on this world and its people?

I am such a lover of History and seeing the greater purposes for which men have fought and died, alot of those privileges we enjoy today by no working of our own, but as a result of someone willing to give up their present "luxuries" in the puruit of a better future for mankind.. and today we call that 'making History"