*Jack’s Winning Words 3/24/22 “History never looks like history when you’re living through it.”  (John Gardner)  History-making events for me: a 4-term President, the Great Depression, WW 2, first  atomic bomb…then, moving into your era.  What have been the history makers?  Ordinary days have a way of becoming extra-ordinary.  Will the Ukraine conflict evolve into WW 3?  Philosopher Santayana said: “If we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.”  It is important that history be taught!   We need to know why there are war memorials in D.C., why there’s a MLK Jr statue.  Pete Seeger wrote/sang: “When will you ever learn?”  ;-)  Jack   FROM FACEBACK LIZ:  you lived thru some mighty historic times! ===JACK:  Yes, that's true///but the quote makes the point that these can be "historic" times, even greater that those I've experienced. ===LIZ:  definitely! covid was the beginning of WWIII===JACK:  We will only know when we have the opportunity to look back...if we have the opportunity.  These are troubling times... ===LIZ:  i think it's a great opportunity to root out bad actors. power to the people! all over the world, we are seeing that we hold it.  do the russians want to live under putin? the chinese under xi? we, under biden? fortunately for america, we were never stupid enuf to let them take our guns.  guess what. i may be moving to new hampshire to join the second american revolution. i am handling a very important (nationally) republican primary campaign for lily tang williams. google her. ===JACK:  It seems as though you are straying from your Libertarian principles by siding with the GOP.  Do you own a gun?===LIZ:   libertarians are fiscally conservative, socially liberal... freedom to choose whatever you decide is best for you and your family.  she is a libertarian-minded repub, like rand paul, whose dad, ron paul, was also a repub.  i have done work for dems i believe in...===JACK:  Libertarians that I have known have never come close to be elected while running as Libertarians   The Pauls are RINOS...and that is a moniker thought up by Republicans.  I'm OK with that.  FROM SMILIN' TERI:   Sooooo true. Someday, when this time is history, there will be some that cannot even relate.===JACK:  I can't imagine what it was like for you, as a female, to live in Saudi Arabia.  I'd like to invite you to zoom in and tell the Optimists about it.  Tuesdays at 9 am. FROM HONEST JOHN:  If the present crisis evolves into WW III, then history will no longer be written!===JACK:  That's a possibility.  There's a Gospel song that I like..."This world is not my home; I'm just-a passin' through.  My treasures are laid up a-way beyond the blue."  Biden is criticized by some because of his restraint.  I think that he realizes how horrible a world-wide nuclear war would be.   FROM ST PAUL IN ZONA:  Actually, the lyric is "When will they ever learn."===JACK:  I took the liberty of making a change to make the quote more personal. FROM BLAZING OAKS:  Excellent WW!  Pet Seeger is probably  still saying it!!  We are S-L-O-W to learn, it seems! :-(===JACK:  Social issue ideas are usually best accepted by using song. FROM BIG AL:  Pete Seeger and the Weavers were black listed.  Sometimes history is hurtful.===JACK:  Was the "problem" because of Viet Nam protests?