Editor, OBSERVER:

To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time scale of our own lives. Thus, nearly all changes were far less perceptible to those who lived through them from day to day than appears when the salient features of an epoch are extracted by the chronicler. (Winston Churchill, from his history “The birth of Britain”)

I speak as one who has surpassed the age of 90. I am not amused by those with preconceived thoughts, referring to history, and then change the narrative to suit their political needs. I realize the students, of today, are graded on what their teachers and professors instruct them. This has proven to be a misleading path when it comes to learning the history of our wonderful country and the world I was in the Dunkirk High School, graduating class of 1948.

I was fortunate of have Mr. Fran Geiben as my history teacher. I was not his best student but nevertheless he took a special interest in me, and I passed the course. After I returned home, from the Korean War, I became passionate in the study of American and English history It was over 10 years after I left Mr. Geiben’s tutorage when I, by chance, met with him. I told him the results of his advice, in school, surfaced at last. He was an excellent teacher and friend.

From the many people I have had the pleasure listening to and the many books by different historians I have learned to recognize those writers that are misleading the truth of events. They attack the integrity the people who have made our country the best the world has known. Churchill said, “I would never been successful if it had not been for the mistakes I had made in the past.”

JACK BENSON,

Greenville, S.C.,

formerly from the Dunkirk area