Ron,

   I don't think I said what you said I said. I was trying to say that the loss of interest in history is a sad situation, and we are worse off for it. A few years ago many of us who were balladeers in the folk revival times actually immersed ourselves in finding nuggets of historical, musical and narrative gold as they were saved and handed down to us so we could see those times and people somewhat clearer---in their own words. For a new generation not to see learning the old implied instructions from the past as being an uppermost priority is, at least sad---and at most---(extrapolated) the reason we are in Iraq and Afghanistan and flushing our nation down the economic toilet.

Art