University of West Georgia - Chieftain Yearbook (Carrollton, GA)

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yesterday, today, tomorrow. . .

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History is just a subject you study in school, something you endure because it is a required five hours credit. Just a bunch of dates and people that you memorize for a test and then forget. A class you force yourself to attend because the professor has an unbreakable cut limit. History is more than just that — it is an indicator of who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. History is an undeniable part of each of us. We are made of the history of our nation, our people, our family. It is something that we can never escape. Something that intelligent men and women do not want to escape, for it holds the clue to our future and without that clue we will just blunder along In life without purpose or plan. Our national history holds high the tradition of freedom and the promise of equality— it is up to each of us to carry on that tradition and to fight for that promise. For unless we do, the work of all of those who have gone before us will be in vain and without purpose. Our individual history shapes both soul and body from the day we are conceived. Our parents and the others who direct our development instill in us attitudes and opinions that will follow us to our graves. It is by their ' example that we become what we are, whether we follow in their footsteps or turn away and go the other direction. History will lead us in whatever direction we choose and without its help we will wander aimlessly as children lost in the night.