Don’t Just Look At The End Result

Rivers roar, split and combine repeatedly

“Wait a minute,” the teenage student from Togo interjected, “You mean the United States had a civil war?”

I was in the middle of giving a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield to a group of teenagers on a week-long service project. Although we had talked about the tour, apparently the student had never learned about our Civil War. The death of more than 50,000 casualties in three days suddenly made [...]

October 9th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: changing, improvement | Leave a comment