3June2015

[Zam-Zam]

On this day in history:

In 1621, the Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).

In 1965, Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.

In 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died.



Quote for today:

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain


Today is National Running Day.
http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/national-running-day



Have a Blessed day.

 

[Max R.]

I like it.

 

[Zam-Zam]

I like it.

I like that you like it.

 

[Max R.]

I like that you like it.

I love history. Not a big fan of it as it was taught in high school but even then I read a lot of books on WWII air warfare. That branched out to Marine Corps history in college when I enlisted in the PLC(A) program. Later, my interests branched out even further since, as George Santayana famously put it "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Add in the idea often misattributed to Einstein "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results" and we have two excellent reasons for studying history: in order to understand how we got here and why things are the way they are.

As another saying goes, "the first step to solving a problem is to understand there is a problem", if we don't like the present, but we understand the past, we have a guide for going where we want to be in the future.