My life qualifies as a kind of history.

A 85 year old veteran has lived a long life. He says his life qualifies as a kind of history, and there are three historic events that happened in his life that have affected him personally.

The first being the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was on a Sunday when I was five (5) years old. My dad was reading the newspaper and listening to a concert on the radio while I was watching the flames dance in the fireplace. The concert was interrupted with the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and I can still remember my dad’s face after hearing the news.

The second was taking a day off of school when I was eight (8) years old and my dad taking me into the city to watch President Eisenhower’s parade. Since dads’ office was on the parade route, he had decided that we would climb the office building and watch from the roof. That is what my dad was expecting would happen. Instead of that, as the parade was approaching my dad’s office building a man scooped me up and placed me on his shoulders.

Lastly, in anticipation that WW2 was over in May of 1970 when I was 33 (Thirty-three) years old. The hope was that WW2 was over however, it was actually spilling into Cambodia. We felt that it could accelerate into a WW3.

So much history that an 85-year-old has experienced, can be passed on to his children and eventually his grandchildren.