We Too Often Forget to Study - or Teach - History

By: Sid Chadwick

“The American Revolution was the most important human event since the Birth of Christ.”……Ken Burns, Documentary Filmmaker

INTRODUCTION:

Our Revolutionary War for Independence created definitions and words the world had not previously defined.

We forget that this critical period lasted 8 years (1775 to 1780), and that probably less than half the colonists were involved, with fewer than half of them as Patriots……And – the price for radical political change – we tend to forget – if we ever knew.

During the Revolution, history recorded there were over 18,000 POW’s in the bowels of British ships in New York Harbor…..rotting. Belt buckles, buttons, and bones continue to surface from bodies that were dumped over the side of those ships.

The French Revolution required 6 years… to finally quiet their Guillotine.

Hollywood has brought us up close through documentaries – of the horrors of our Civil War. Over 50,000 casualties were just from The Battle of Gettysburg (and some of us would acknowledge that partly from how Reconstruction was implemented, post-war fighting continued for decades.)

The Free World knows there’s a debt over the last century owed to America…that keeps being added-to.

But the cost of the alternative – is too great to engage.

SUMMARY:

Our great industry has a vital and timely role to play – for supporting local and national organizations – committed to healing – and renewal – and a better future.

Our communities are like wheels, with spokes. Each spoke serves a distinct and important purpose – that benefits all the other spokes.

In finishing-up our 1st Inside Sales Rep/CSR 13-Week Class,  time was made to discuss options for our Students to use their new Research Skills – to assist their local Non-Profit and Charitable organizations – to better tell their stories – through providing recently published articles that can elevate their target prospect’s mission. 

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.”……………….Albert Einstein