Learning about your past takes knowledge, interaction

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

I was blessed with parents who were active, strong and engaged readers and who encouraged the development and refinement of that trait in their children. That’s where my love of history started.

But it was more than just reading.

My father served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. His father, my grandfather, was a chaplain during the war in the South Pacific, beginning with being a part of the Army’s 25th Infantry Division that relieved U.S. Marines at a lovely, tropical getaway called Guadalcanal.

Granddad never talked about that to me, and just a little bit m...