Learned something new

December 14, 2006

What We Learned Today
Great historians have always said that we must learn history in order that we not repeat it. Today in school we learned that during the Civil War, lasting almost four years to the day, from April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865, more than six hundred thousand men died, on our own American soil. That loss of life is greater than the combined loss of men in all of the other wars America has fought, from the War of 1812 to Vietnam. As Americans we worry about having to fight a war with foreigners on our own soil and we forget that the greatest war we fought was against our neighbor on our own soil. Maybe we should make a greater effort to get along with our American neighbors, lest we repeat history.