History

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Very simply put, we are supposed to learn from history - and history is
a process of looking at the *what-ifs* to prevent something from the
present from becoming a *what-if* in the future.

DF Cramer wrote:

>     Hindsight is wonderful when it comes to "We should have saved........."
> Historians the world over have lamented the loss of all sorts of items from
> historical documents to music manuscripts and more.  Thank heavens for the
> development of languages, the photograph and sound recordings.  Why not work
> on what we have instead of wasting our energies on what ifs?

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
    To e-mail privately, please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/