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When you write a post about history and then lose it, is it just repeating history to write about history again?  Well, probably, but I'm still going to write about it, although I'm going to keep it more brief.

When in school, history was boring.  Not because history itself is boring, but because they tended to teach the same history over and over again.  It doesn't change, so why teach it again and again?  The biggest offender was American history.  Nothing wrong with it, it just spans such a brief part of the overall history of the earth that putting such a big focus on it is a waste.

I know it's where I'm from, but expand the horizons a bit.  There is so much to teach and learn from.  The one part that they barely even touched when I was in school was WW2.  And of course that is the one area of history that I'm interested in the most.

I enjoy learning about the events that led up to, occured during and the fallout after the war ended.  Enjoy is probably the wrong word as it's a terrible war with a lot of atrocities that occured.  But to ignore it is also something that shouldn't be done because there is a lot to learn from it.

My real interest didn't even start until after I graduated from high school.  Playing Call of Duty got me really interested in it from learning about the actual battles that occured on the map to diving into it even more and more.  Shows like Band of Brothers and the plentiful documentaries that have been made about it.  then there is the deep dives that can be done on the internet that are just so interesting.

It was also something that I was good at in school even though it was rarely touched on.  I really only remember a section about the Russian campaign, which I not only aced the test without trying but also got the extra credit on the test.  Then again the history class was easy and I averaged more than a 100% throughout the year.

History needs to be taught, but it needs to teach more.  It shouldn't just focus on the same subjects over and over again.  There is so much history.  What happened yesterday is history.  We all need to learn from it.  It helps us prevent it from happening again.  Something we could really use these days.

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